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Need for hip replacement with no hip pain?
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I have had the same problem for several years, The real problem is spinal stenosis for which I now have epidurals from a Neurosurgeon and I plan to start a PT program this week. I have hip bone spurs for many years and have had some success via PT.
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@marthadean I have both spinal and lumbar stenosis. For years it was asymptomatic. Then, around the beginning of 2025, it became symptomatic with pain radiating down both legs. Here in greater Phoenix the neurosurgeons don't normally do the steroid epidurals, they leave it to pain doctors. My pain doctor gave me a steroid caudal epidural and the pain went away in my left leg (worst leg) but only partly in my right which is when I realized that I had simultaneously lost the function of my right knee.
Six months ago my hip/knee surgeon gave me a new right knee and the rest of the pain disappeared. I do have a great neurosurgeon (he has written a primer for other surgeons on how to do minimally invasive spinal surgery) and we have a deal: when the steroid shots stop working...I call him. So far, eleven months and finger crossed, the pain has not returned.