Hip pain

[FamilyPicnic]

What is about arthritis that you fear?

[Fishmanpa]

No one can evaluate you physically here. You need to see a doctor TBH. The best help is the help you give yourself.

So what did the doctor say?

FMP

[pb]

I think its worry that arthritis will be debilitating and I will always be in pain.
I need to help myself and go to my gp.
I have elderly parents to care for, I feel a mess mentally and physically.

[swajj]

Of Course NOT !!
Why would I, oh hold on a minute, maybe it's because I'm having a really hard time with my Health Anxiety at the moment.
By the way I'm not offloading, just scared and distressed.
I need to see my gp, believe me I KNOW THIS.
Do you really think your reply is Helpful!

Of Course NOT!
Not the second one anyway. The first one was though. Did you read that one?

[pb]

I read all the replies. I realise that the pain may be bursitis, but my HA keeps going to arthritis. As I keep saying I need to see my gp for a diagnosis and some more help with my anxiety.

[FamilyPicnic]

I know you are very scared so the sooner you get to the doctor the better so that you can get to the bottom of the problem. There are many causes of hip pain, arthritis is just one of them. Is it osteoarthritisng you are concerned about?

I am in no way trying to diminish what you are going through but the reality is, in retrospect arthritis generally is not that serious. I know there are people who are crippled by it but that’s the exception rather than the rule. If one is over fifty years of age, more likely than not they already have it or will get it. But there are so many worse things that can go wrong with the body. Again, I’m not trying to diminish your fears, I just want you to know that having it doesn’t mean the end of a normal life.