Hi. Do you already know you need a hip replacement? My ortho wants me to have the injection as a way of diagnosing the need for a hip replacement. If my pain goes away he says it’s my hip causing the pain and I’ll likely need a replacement.

My question is: what if my pain is caused from the arthritis in my back or from bursitis. If I understand it correctly, the injection would also relieve pain from those sources so how would he know if it was the hip, the back arthritis or the bursitis causing the pain!

Let me know how it goes tomorrow, especially how the injection goes if you get one. And thank you so much for reaching out.