Right Sided Groin Pain In Female. Muscle Or Nerve Damage?

Hi @leigho55, my apologies for the delayed welcome. Somehow your message slipped by me.
How frustrating it must be (to say the least) to find answers and relief for the pain you're in. I wonder if you might learn about someone experiencing similar symptoms in the Chronic Pain group, in particular the discussion called Chronic pain - Let's talk https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/are-there-any-discussions-for-chronic-pain/ where you'll meet members like @leh09 @19lin @sharonmay7 @ladyjane85.

Hi Colleen No one in that group seems to have the issue's I have going on except chronic pain. I don't know what I have yet no one is giving me answers. I am trying to get into Mayo to see a orthopedic/muscle specialist. Pain management Dr. wants to give me injections but no answer as to what happened to me when I turned on the procedure table after a CT myelogram and something popped. A muscle tear? a nerve nicked? I don't know anything. Almost 10 months of chronic pain and numerous testing and I am beside myself with no answers. No one in the chronic pain group has been on it looks like since this past may. No one has the lower right sided groin pain like I am having. I am not sure If I will stay on this. I have searched for something familiar but nothing. I don't have a prolapse. Which took 4 months for them to figure out 🙁 Thanks for your suggestions though.

We may not have pain in the same area of the body, but most of us here are dealing with a variety of pain that has doctors baffled. Chronic pain is a beast! It can strike anywhere in the body, sometimes even migrating to a new area. This is because the brain in people with chronic pain becomes sensitized. The brain has been experiencing pain for so long that it doesn't know when to turn off the pain receptors. There are several people that you should have on your team: a pain med specialist, a physical medicine specialist, physical therapist, possibly a behavior therapist, and us ( a support group). The support group doesn't have the answers but we are here to listen when your having a difficult day and suggest things that have and have not helped us. We are all different in our pain but joined together in support. I hope you'll stay and give the group a chance. Some weeks we don't have much to say and other times we can be very chatty! Hang in there!

Hi, Leigh --<br><br>I don't know if this will help, but the pain you describe sounds similar to<br>pain experienced (usually temporarily) in the late stages of pregnancy when<br>the baby's head is pressing into the pelvic area. This pain is on the<br>inside of the leg and can be intermittent or constant. After birth, there<br>may be nerve soreness or a memory of the pain as the nerve recovers --<br>sometimes the sensitivity lasts for several weeks after birth even though<br>the pressure has been alleviated. A Pilates instructor with a detailed<br>knowledge of physiology or a physical therapist may be helpful in<br>developing exercises to help you, if the pain can be alleviated by reducing<br>pressure on the nerve, through strengthening muscles in the thigh, leg,<br>hip, etc.<br>

Thtank you for your response I appreciate it. This is my issue. I had a CT myelogram done right before Thanksgiving last yr. When I turned on the procedure table something popped within me on my right side in the rib cage area? IDK. No one is telling me. Once the nerve block wore off and I got up the next morning I had a lot of pressure on the right side of the vaginal/groin area. I went through bio-feedback therapy, numerous visits to my primary dr. 4 trigger point injections into my vaginal area, cystoscopy, pelvic ultrasound, steroids, etc.... I have had x-rays, mri's and no one can tell me what has happened. So now I am at the pain Dr. and he is upset with me for taking pain pills. Well if I knew what has happened inside my body I would not be there in the first place. Kind of have been passed around and now the pain dr. wants to inject me with a nerve block. For what? If the dr's don't know what it is then they need to say so. I am in 24/7 pain. Sitting, lying down, standing. Feels like cardboard at times stuck side ways. Now it is going up my back side (right) into my buttocks. I do not have a prolapse. I do have a severely damaged levator muscle and no one can tell me how that happened either. I want to know what popped on the surgical table and why it traveled down into my groin area (right side only) No answers. This has been 10 months now in a few days. I was trying to see if anyone else has had a similar problem with this popping. I think it was a muscle detaching but no one again is confirming this. Thanks for listening and responding.

I am way past pregnancy age but thank you for your suggestion. You can see below what I wrote. Thank you!

@leh09 thanks for jumping into this conversation with Leigh. Your message about how members support one another in the Chronic Pain group is spot on. https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/pain/
Thank you.

I have had 3-4 nerve blocks done with great results but I account this to a wonderful dr...

Welcome to Connect @jessieskeen84.
Can you tell us more about your experience with nerve blocks? Did you have pain in the groin area as well?

It turns out the popping I heard and felt when turning on the procedure table was a disc in my back and it has pushed into my Levator Ani muscle. No one really knows what to do except inject me next week with an epidural. This is not going to fix my damaged Levator Ani but they think they have to do this first for some reason. Thank you for responding. No answers here in Florida 🙁