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I have decided to speak up about my leg pain. I had leg pain in my buttocks and thighs. The thigh pain was a searing pain and the buttock pain was more like a muscle pain. I went online to see what I could find and decided I had trochanter bursitis. I then went to my knee ortho to confirm my self-diagnosis and he confirmed it. We treated it with some steroid injections until I went to a Sports Medicine doctor who has treated it with wet needling. The treatments resolve the buttocks pain and some of the thigh pain, but not all. The searing thigh pain is resolved with prednisone (oral and/or injections) when it gets bad enough to require bigger guns than the needling.
Recently the Sports Medicine doctor has offered some private pay options that might have longer term higher quality help. No decision yet. Trochanter bursitis is now a chronic problem that is a result of my PMR.
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Thank you for your input and info.
Tom
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Curious what do you mean by searing pain in thighs. Is it just in the front (quads), or just upon rising from a chair, or all of the time? Did your Sports Med doc tell you this condition could be “a result of “ your PMR?
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@jabrown0407 Years before PMR I used to get that kind of muscle pain in my buttocks. I even bought a special cushion for my chair at work. I also had continuing back pain and later on, I had a laminectomy. The buttocks pain went away after recovering from my laminectomy. However, I am now on a low dose of methylprednisolone (2mg/day) and I can feel slight pain in my buttocks along with the bilateral PMR pain in shoulders.