Left hip symptoms and conditions

I have a huge indention on my left hip, supposedly as the result of an injection I received 4 months ago. I got a steroid shot (not sure the name) for a rash and itching. No immediate side effects and then about 2 mos. later I notice a lump on my hip about the size of a marble that was brown discolored spot. Then I remembered about the shot and thought it was a result of that. Forgot about it until about 6 weeks later when I got out of the shower and noticed a huge indention about the size of a golf ball on my left hip. A week later, I started having pain at that site which would radiate across my entire lower back, down my leg and up my arm. Sometimes the pain was dull, sometimes like a bad burning sensation with tingling all over. I went to the dr. and he thinks the indention is from the injection but is sending me to an orthopedic dr. this week for more testing due to the pain I am having. Maybe related, or not, I found a lump in my left breast this week, had it checked and have to go to an imaging center next week for more testing. Could this be related?? Also I missed 2 periods after the injection and my last period wasn't normal. Please keep posting these comments from others. I'm going to call my dr. Monday to get the name of the injection.

hello! well, i'm not sure if you all will know but i've had bleeding throughout the day today. i've started exercising and not sure if that's why i'm bleeding. i have pain in my lower left hip in the back. anyway. what the hell...i'm reading some of the posts and they definitely don't tell you these things when you have it put in. but, my doctor is really great. she does believe any symptoms i have are usually related to mirena. i just worry about getting the pelvic inflammatory disease. i would appreciate your thoughts! thanks.

I have had serious hip pain, especially when extending my left hip, and even worse with abduction of my left leg. I had absoluetly no pain before taking Fosamax. My doctor insists, the pain is only arthritis, and had nothing to do with the Fosamax.

I'm 54 and have taken 31 tablets of 5 mg Lisinopril.
I've experienced cramps in both calves.I've had so much pain in my left hip and top of thigh I can barely walk. Had to get my wife to put my socks on!
I'm not overweight I may add (155lbs) . Now started getting niggly aches in shins and fingers. Spoke to my doctor yesterday who said stop taking them and report back to him on Monday.
Seeing these comments make me feel that I'm lucky to have come off this drug so soon - but what the hell is he going to give me instead ????

I have been reading on here. I got my mirena in July 2008. I had really heavy periods and terrible cramping. Also, my doc said it was a treatment for ovarian cysts, which I also have problems with. I had bad cramping for 2 months after getting it and spotting. I have no desire to have sex and I've been battling depression and anxiety. I am 26 with 2 great kids. My husband had a vasectomy, so this was only to prevent periods and cysts. However, I haven't enjoyed sex since. Not only do I get pain afterwards, but the pain sends a terrible pressure down my left leg. My husband says he feels the iud during sex. The pain I get after sex lasts for up to 2 weeks...Has anyone had something like this? I have been referred to a specialist, but the docs look at me like I am crazy. Sometimes I feel like I am.

I am finding that I have very bad mood swings taking this med. I have pain in my left hip joint and swelling in my ankles and hands

Wow! I must be the latest in a long line of Lipitor users and apparently pain sufferers. I have been on Lipitor for over a year. I am 56 years old, active and healthy (thank God). Around November 2008, I noticed a "twinge" in my left hip while sleeping. This has gotten progressively worse over the months and I thought it was due to arthritis (which runs in my family). But after reading these blogs, I am not so sure. If anyone has anything definitive regarding this, ie: tests, studies, etc., I would really appreciate a point in the right direction for more information. I was thinking (until today) that I was headed for hip surgery or something equally drastic. Now that I have a clue that it may be the Lipitor, I want to investigate further and then, if necessary, change to another medication that won't break me down like this. My heart goes out to anyone that has suffered through hip pain. It is a miserable, painful condition that saps your energy and your desire to even move sometimes. I appreciate any help you can offer. God bless all of you. - L. B. ******

I have a huge deformity going on in my left hip area and I am in constant pain. Not to mention I have NO SEX LIFE any longer. I am depressed I will not wear the same clothing as I used to wear because I am deformed now. I received 80 mil. twice over the same month. I read all about this medication and number one that was entirely to large of a dosage and it was injected entirely to deep. When I asked the dr. that gave me the shot, he matter of factly,said,"Oh yes that is a side affect." And that was that.Well I am not done I will be hiring an attorney tomorrow because the indent is getting larger,the pain is persistent,and my depression is now affecting my entire family. Some how that doesn't seem fair to me.

Hi everyone I started taking Yasmin a little over a month ago and I have notice I been eating like crazy and have been have pains in my left arm and right arm. on top of this I been having pain on my left hip

I had a Kenalog injection in November to try to get over bronchitis. About three months later I noticed an indentation on the right side of my butt. I went to the doctors and she said that that can happen and it will probably come back. It is now June 2nd and it is way worse than it was then. I don't know what to do now. I think they should be responsible to fix it. It's disgusting.

hi, i've had the mirena in for about 14 months. The first 8 months i had constant spotting, nausea, vertigo (dizzy spells), bloating, weight gain and pimples. The spotting has settled down. i still get a period every now and again. the last one i had was really heavy with clotting. I often get sharp pains and cramping in my uterus but no bleeding. I have also had thrush for the last 3 months that wont go away. has anyone else had thrush on the mirena? My back pain is really bad. particularly my left hip. i haven't been able to sleep on my left side for over a year now. Don't know what to do!!

Hey all. I suspect many of you would agree that one of the most infuriating aspects of this antibiotic nightmare is that seemingly, there aren't many {none that I've dealt with} doctors/nurses or pharmacists that will even acknowledge the potential {and VERY REAL} side effects of these drugs.

On 01/10/08 I was put on Cipro 500mg twice daily, two week supply, for epididymitis, which likely stemmed from a bacterial infection/urinary infection back in late Oct of 07. It's an infection that can require a lengthy dosage due to eliminate bacteria growth. I was also prescribed a painkiller along with it.

That night after dosing had horrible nausea/vomiting, and chalked it up to the painkiller ... which at that point it likely was. Within a few days the groin pain from the infection had subsided a great deal, and although felt a little 'odd' from the Cipro, nothing too noteworthy. At eight days into treatment, became nauseous around the clock with bizarre flu like symptoms. I called the doctor at the ER who had diagnosed me, and she switched me to Doxycilline {sp?}, which isn't a quinolone. After stopping the Cipro, nausea disappeared. However, within a week the pain of the infection returned, apparently due to the weaker antibiotic.

So I was re-checked on 01/24/08 and put on Levaquin, 250gm once daily. Within a day or so the pain subsided once again, but on the third day developed horrible diarrhea and pain in my left knee/leg. Stopped taking it immediately, and decided to research my dilemma online, where to my horror I've discovered all sorts of people from all walks of life experiencing debilitating side effects from this grouping of fluoroquinolone/quinolones antibiotics.

I'm now on Cephalexin, and the pharmacist I spoke with today assured me that it's not part of the quinolone grouping. He also suggested that I must be part of that small pool of the populace that has trouble with quinolone antibiotics ... one begins to wonder just how "small" this pool is given how the average person isn't likely to associate muscle/joint pain with the antibiotic they're ingesting.

How this POISON has lasted so long on the market without more exposure/media coverage speaks volumes about the state of corporate America, with nearly every social system compromised {usually at the expense of the corporation's victims} , with little or no help from the corporate owned mainline media, which serves as nothing but a megaphone platform for vested intertests to transmit "official" opinion to the unwary. So here I be with very painful knee, which I should add is already compromised due to a major tibial plateau fracture in 2001.

I'd love to know whose palms are being greased to keep this rat poison available ... hell, I even had to pay over our insurance co-pay fore the Levaquin, as it's apparently a "top shelf" drug.

Good luck everyone ... and it probably doesn't need to be said, but man, I know after this I will check and double check any and every antibiotic that may be perscribed to our daughter in the future!

I have been taking Lipitor for several years now, 40 mil. About a month ago I started having terrible shooting pains in my left hip. Within a day or so the pain had also started in the calf of my leg, like a cramp that wouldn't go away. My left calf all the way to the tip of my toes felt numb and tingly like it was asleep and it feels as though I don't have control of my leg or foot. The pain got so bad I couldn't walk. It would get better for a day or so and then come back again. It got so bad I couldn't walk, stand or sit. The only way I could get any relief was to stay in bed in one certain position. I stopped taking Lipitor on my own. It has been over a month now and I still have pain but isn't as bad most of the time. This pain is so terrible I hope writing this note will help others. I'm wondering if I will ever be normal again. I was a very active 58 year old but now I feel like a crippled 100 year old. They should take this drug off the market or at least warn people of what it will do to them.

I have only taken 2 Fosamax pills (once a week) and after taking the second one, I have experienced severe lower back, right leg, left foot pain. Can anyone tell me how long they experienced this side effect. I will not be taking Fosamax anymore, needless to say. Before taking this medication, I was fine. I am sleep deprived because the pain is worse when lying down.

Hi there... I have just found this site and I'm very grateful to everyone who has taken the time to sit down and tell us their story mine is very similar. BELIEAVE me I feel like I am pushing my family away and I'm losing my relationship with the one person who used to make me feel like I was the most beautiful woman in the world.
I'm a 40 yr female have or maybe had a great job that I loved... On April 12 I noticed a small red rash on my lower right leg no big deal went to the Dr. gave me some cream and sent me home well I went to work and by the afternoon things just seem to get bad my legs began to swell and little blisters started to pop up so I went to the E.R. they had no Idea what was wrong with me got me an appointment to see a skin DR. so I went home but the pain from the swelling was so bad I could not walk any longer went back to the E.R. they gave me some pain meds and called in some other DR. things had gone from bad to worse my feet had gotten to big I could not put on shoes and I had bruised completely across the bottoms of my feet they put me on 30mg of PRED. and it seem to be under control sent me home after 3 day in the hospital things were good for about a day or so I thought I would go back to work well that was not a very good idea.... My sister had to come and take me back to the ER where they did 2 biopsies and still have no idea what is wrong with me. so now they put me on 60mg of PRED the rash has gone, lots of scaring on my feet because of the blisters once they broke and dried out but I can live with that....
It's the side effects that they don’t tell you about,
MOON FACE I can't look at myself cause really that’s not me anymore,
WEIGHT GAIN I have always been thick but I can't handle the extra 30lbs I've gained,
MOOD SWINGS are unbearable,
PAINFUL JOINTS, CAMEL HUMP, BLOODY NOSE, BRUSING, SORE TEETH/GUMS, DRY EYES, FAITIGE, and worsted of all
I don’t have a support systems in my life so I'm fighting this by myself everyday, I have 3 kids that I have tried to explain all this to but they don't get it and well my boyfriend he tells me he understands that its the meds pushing him away but if I can't figure away to control this I will lose every thing including my job. I cant even get the energy together half the time to make it up and down the stairs which also comes with the pain of just trying to lift each leg up to climb the stairs, I also have the camel hump which I find very painful, The acne and the hair growth that I have to get wax off once a month cause I feel like a man I feel like a loser and as of the last couple of days I just want to give up I am now down to 20mg per day but I find that I am feeling so sick I cant think straight I hope and pray for each and every person out there that has to take this MED that you get better and I do hope that my symptoms wont come back. Thanks for being here and I’m glad I found this site. I know now that I’m not losing my mind completely. Elizabeth.

I too have been on tri-cor for about 2 weeks. For the past week severe pain in my left hip going down my left leg has woke me up from sleeping within 2 hours after I finally fall asleep! I have never had such horrible pain like this before I started this medication. I have experienced nausua, vomitting & sore throat. I'm calling my cardio doc today! I simply can not go on like this!

I was prescribed Levaquin twice: Once for a bladder infection in July 06 and for Bronchitis in November of 06. In December my left hip started pain and soon after my right hip. I feel like I have tendonitis in them. At first it was extremely painful to raise myself up from a sitting position and to get in and out of the car. Lifting also bothers them. I have noticed a little improvement by using Advil and heat at night. I am also very prone to heartburn, which I never was and have had to take a lot of foods I use to enjoy out of my diet.

Terrible hip pain and swelling of left hip. flu symptroms, achey, no energy, exhaustion,

I started taking Lisinipril to lower my blood pressure about a month ago. since the beginning I felt sleepy, lack of energy, and soon started an almost constant cough and really horrible pain in my left hip/leg.
I had not found this forum at that time, but I did some research using the numerous medical books online. I came across two different pages about coughing and pain in the hip, both of them pointing independently to the same culprit: bradykinin, which happens to be a vasodilator. That is the way Lisinopril acts, lowering BP by dilating blood vessels. I have stopped taking it, and hope the damage to my leg is not permanent. It is really a dangerous drug and should be withdrawn immediately from the market.

My last Kenalog shot was about 3 years ago. I had received 2 previously years ago. This last shot left a noticably golf ball size discolored indentation to my left hip. Within this year I have noticed pain in my left hip, even with basic movements. I have recently noticed that when I do leg lifts out to my side that I hear a popping noise coming from my left hip only. I have to wonder, since not having a reaction with my 2 previous shots, if maybe there was a discrepancy in that specific drugs lot.

I'm recovering from bacterial pneumona. My doctor started me on Advair a few weeks ago. It definitley helped my breathing, but I have gained 4 pounds in the last 2 weeks. I've also been experiencing pain in my left hip. I'm a runner and I thought I may have done something without remembering. This site confirms the side effects I'm experiencing. I tossed the my disquette in the trash and will rely on the albutarol.

I went to my usual Urgent Care Physician about 10 months ago for a sinus infection and bronchitis and he said he was going to give me 2 shots in each hip, never bothered to tell me what they were or the possible side effects. I assumed it was penicillin or something like it. After the huge dent in my left hip appeared a month later, I knew it had to be from that shot. I called the doctor's office and asked what it was. It was Kenalog. I am sick over this and want to know if it will ever go away. I recently bumped into a car mirror on this dent site and now 9 days later it is as black and purple as can be about 8 inches around and shows no signs of going away. Is there anything that can be done?

I went to the doctor because I had a stopped up nose . He told me that a kenalog shot would help me. I got the shot and within two hours my left hip and buttocks were very discolored and burning really bad. I returned to the doctor the next day and he gave me some cream to put on it. The cream did not help at all. I kept going back to the doctor for about a week and he said that it would clear up on it"s own. Well, it did not clear up. It just got worse. I finally had to go to the hospital because the pain got so bad. The doctor at the hospital was very surprised because my skin was dead from the shot . He called in a surgeon and they did emergency surgery on me that night. They removed the left side of my hip. I have been in and out of the hospital for the last 5 weeks and had 2 surgery's. I have also had to have a skin graph from my leg to cover up th sight on my hip. Now I have to wait for this to heal and have plastic surgery to make my hip look back to normal. This was all because of the shot.

After being diagnosed as possibly having pneumonia, Levaquin was prescribed for a 10-day period. I took the medication for 5 days until I noticed severe aching & jolts of pain through my left leg & hip. I have NEVER had problems like this before taking this medication and have since been placed into physical therapy for bursitis in my left hip. I'm still having trouble walking great distances, quickly or sitting for longer than 30 minutes. Needless to say, I did not finish the Levaquin prescription.

Read many of the postings and I am experiencing almost the same thing...weight gain of about 15 lbs, the little bumps like acne on my face(not sure what that is) and occasional muscle/joint pain. The Advair really helps me breath much better than I used to but the side effects are awful. If anyone knows of an alternative medication that works with a lesser degree of side effects, please let me know.

Thank you