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Any success having Lateral Femoral Cutaneous fixed?

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I am so glad I came across this thread. I also hope this ends up giving you significant relief.

I have something similar but it's the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve with me. I'm not sure how I injured it but it has been going on almost 4 years and in pursuit of a solution I have has a total anterior hip replacement, spinal cord simulator implant (both of which have been unsuccessful) as well as multiple steroid injections both spine and hip. The injections have given varying degrees of relief for varying amounts of time. I also have had numerous MRI scans of hip, pelvis, spine, all of which show nothing that could be causing this. I have been doing PT and my PT is great. He has found areas in my glute and groin (targeting the obturator nerve) that can be released manually but the relief only lasts for a day at most. The area of pain distribution is the anterior femoral nerve.

I want to give up. I'm so glad I came across this thread. Please tell me what kind of doctors/surgeons you saw that gave you answers and help! Who did your surgery, was it an orthopedic surgeons Spine surgeons? Pain medicine specialists?
I really need help knowing where to go next.

Thank you and be well!

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@laurenthewise1 My tenth ( and hopefully final) doctor is a neurosurgeon. I gave him my four year history in detail and he was sure it was meralgia paresthetica and that only surgery would help as I had tried everything else. He said it was rare that it went on this long and it is a rare surgery. I am much better after only 6 weeks ( First two to three were a b*tch). Lauren, you can message me and I will give you more info.
Good luck. joni