Mayo clinic should have the expertise to solve your problem! I can only guess that getting half of it fixed ( hip) would at least be a benefit fir you, regardless if they can fix the other nerve business at the sane time or not. But that’s pure guesswork. You are wise to be going for advice to a clinic with such a high reputation. The best I can suggest is to maintain your hope while you’re getting the doctors’ best advice. Stay upbeat and positive. It’s really amazing just how much the docs can do nowadays. Now is the time for hopefulness not despair.
Thanks for the good counsel & advice. My left leg is throbbing right now, in the left hip, left upper thigh and left calf muscle.... I am a long time patient at Mayo Clinic & my primary physician is with the Mayo Clinic. I have had open heart surgery for heart prolapsed mitral valve & followed by a pacemaker implant 2 years later, and a pacemaker replacement in 2011. I live in Rochester MN as well. Also I work for IBM but I am of the strong opinion that IBM will radically change our previously stellar health insurance plans, in order to comply with 0dumb0 Death Care. So I think it would be best to get a hip replacement this year under my current IBM health plan, before IBM drops or slashes the health insurance for 2015, after the large company exemption from 0dumb0 expires after 2014. Or 0dumb0 Death Care will change the criteria for hip replacement coverage.
Thanks very much!