Severe groin pain and inner thigh

The pain can also come from your SI joints. With hip and lumbar issues, they can both affect the SI joints. The si joints take the upper load of the body. When the lumbar and also hips have problems, they can cause too much movement in the SI joint. The way to know is your doctor doing a specific physical examination, CT scan and diagnostic injections (not steriod). The pain from the si joints can cause lumbar, groin and hip pain. You could have pain coming from all three. There is info on Mayo Clinic You Tube and Seattle Science Foundation You Tube. I have pain generators in all three. We are in the middle of replacing my hips and then SI joint revision. I have a long complicated history😊

I have herniated discs in my lower back, I have had my entire hip joint replaced from arthritis and a labral tear, and I have SI joint pain so I'm familiar with all three and I've gotten good at differentiating. A labral tear will hurt in your groin and it may make your leg feel a little sloppy so that you don't feel like it's really tight in the joint like your other leg is. It can be very achy and sore. When first torn it hurts so bad - I screamed and cried for a couple hours - the pain is excruciating. To diagnose they will first do an x-ray and then do an MRI with contrast. I was 71 at the time I had my hip surgery and it took two full years to recover. It was long, slow, and uncomfortable and very painful at first. SI joint pain is another matter - it feels like severe sciatica pain is all over the back of your hip, lower back, and running down the side of your leg and your knee sometimes all the way to your ankle. At first it can usually be treated with an NSAID or Tylenol for the pain. When that stops working then the orthopedic surgeon or pain clinic doctor or sometimes even your regular doctor can do a cortisone injection into the SI joint which gives me terrific relief for a long time. Bursitis can make the outside of your hip joint very sore so you don't even want to lay on your side and it also can be gotten rid of with a cortisone shot. For lower back pain I have had numerous neurosurgeons tell me to leave it alone, surgery is rarely permanent, and do my exercises - lay on your back with your knees bent & push your pelvis to the bed or the floor and just do that several times every single day and don't lift anything heavy, don't twist, just leave your back alone and sit straight. With me (as well as my husband), I've been lucky as mine has been responsive to conservative treatment - and a Tylenol and occasionally a muscle relaxant and then rest gets me over a rare flare up. Sleep on side with a pillow between knees and ankles so you don't pull on back muscles. Ruptured and herniated my lumbar discs over 50 years ago. My brother got the lumbar surgery and 6 months later was in terrible pain again and went through all that for nothing. Hope this helps.