Severe pains on my right leg, radiating from the right

I would consider an MRI. In the meantime, don't do any physical therapy. A lot of them don't know what they are doing.

thank you.

What kind of doctor are you going to see? My primary is very good at looking at painful areas and diagnosing the cause. Hope they can figure yours out and treat it. Upper leg pain called ITBS can be very intense and sustaining. I’ve had that several times.

Is the area red, hot or swollen?

@acemoose
I can empathize. I have right hip flexor pain from crotch to upper thigh to outer hip. I had lumbar spine surgery last year and wasn’t sure if related. It started 3 months after surgery. I had MRIs of lumbar spine and hips. No arthritis in hip but it showed I had bilateral gluteal tendinopathy and bilateral hamstring tears (not sure how I got these). I had severe stenosis and neurogenic claudication which caused lower back, hip, buttock, leg, and foot pain/numbness and weakness. Much improved after surgery until the excruciating pain in my right hip flexor started. I am not sure if this is tied to the gluteal/hamstring issue,surgery or nerve healing after being compressed so long. I also was told at some point a while ago I had sciatica but pt did not help at all.

It would be good for you to get Xrays/MRIs of your lumbar spine and hips (by orthopedic specialists) plus see a neurologist for EMG/nerve conduction studies of your lower limbs.

It could be something that is easily fixed. I had vague leg pains around the front of my thighs that were horrible. I went to a great pain management doctor at Ucsd and they were doing RFA/RFI radio frequency ablations it was an easy outpatient Procedure where they put a needle in my facet joint and heat it up and knock out the nerve pain. I had to have it twice in some locations and the heat method worked better than the pulse method. I empathize if that’s what your problem is because it was a weird feeling to have the as you describe it-the vague pain on the front of your leg and yes, nothing absolutely nothing worked to relieve it except getting at the source which was in the spine the facet joints actually! I hope this information helps and I hope it’s the cause and a lot of places like Kaiser don’t offer it. I got mine at a teaching hospital Ucsd pain management doctors know about ablation but they have to buy a special needle. That’s a couple thousand dollars to do the injections so they don’t all do it. Please don’t give up and I hope you find someone who will try this for you in my case it was fairly permanent on some ofmy facet joints. 15 or 20 years later, some of the pains came back in some places so we just did the ablation again. It’s a non-invasive easy do.

looks normal - pain is intense upon trying to lift up leg
not hot. not swollen
Primary are physician has the abillity to confer with and refer to specialists.
- the dscription of ITBS does no apply to me i believe. My pain is right where the upper leg meets my abdomen (abdomen ok -- upper leg area not ok)
Many thanks!

what a beautiful and descriptive response. I'm printing out all these responses and showing them to my doctor-- she is a VERY good doctor and LOL has never yelled at me (unlike some of the others)

Glad you are feeling better. I hope soon that I won't ever again have to pick up my right pants leg and haul my leg into my car (it's not funny now but will be later I am sure)

Best wishes to you

Many thanks- XRays and MRI's can be done by Kaiser-- I will peruse, with my doctor - the possibilities for the other modalities such as neurologist, that you mentioned.

please advocate for yourself. I understand having to lift your leg with your hands. That is a SUPER IMPORTANT thing to say. Now it is your doctors jobs to find out WHY that is. I have my suspicions. But get multiple referrals all at the same time to get a good picture. You do need an MRI of your lumbar spine FOR SURE! Kaiser likes to do one thing a time ergo saving them money and making you needlessly suffer waiting for service.

Hello. I am wondering if this is more hip related than spine? I am fused l4-s1 with residual right sided sciatica. When my left groin area started hurting and I was walking with my upper body more forward I thought it was more back issues. But I read somewhere about the hip causing that type of pain so had a left hip MRI. Turns out I had a complete tear in that hip labrum. I had it reconstructed as well as some arthritis in bones shaped up (3 years ago) and back to hiking again.
Hope this helps on your journey.