It's very said to say these words at age 26, but my "good" hip is now hurting. That must mean that I have a bad hip? Yes, I do in fact have a bad hip. In high school I was one busy girl, cheerleading, track band, StuCo, you name it I was involved. On top of all those activities, I still worked part time at least 3 days a week. So one day at work I bent down to pick something up and when I stood up I couldn't walk. I mean, I literally had to drag my right leg with me. So the next morning I went to the Athletic Trainer at school and he could not figure out what was wrong with me. That day at school consisted of me dragging my leg around with me and my "friends" laughing hysterically at me. It was kinda a funny sight. I then went to my general practitioner, and shocker they knew nothing about joints, muscles or even how to test them (that's what PT's are for!) anyways, it all resolved itself and every once in a while since then my hip will get locked up and take me a minute to walk.
Within the last year, sitting in class for hours a day, my hip started locking up a lot more frequently especially when I sit to take a test, and we take a million tests. I can deal with getting up from sitting and limping around for a minute or two. What I can't handle is my left hip is now aching and I have to lift it into my car!
So I saw a few doctors this week for some crazy symptoms I was having. Since I was so busy telling the doc I thought I was having either a stroke, heart attack or had a brain tumor, I thought they would think I was crazy if I told them I might need a total hip replacement too, so I left that little detail out.
Yes I am definitely a hypochondriac thanks to learning too much in school, but something is seriously wrong with my damn left hip now!