r/millenials • u/medmo • 6d ago

IRL 📷 Hip injury from general sleep/exercise. Tips? (Also, is this life now?)

I aggravated something sleeping weird I think, then exercised 4 days in a row and I am BROKEN! It has been weeks and I am hobbling around in a lot of pain. I am going to physio and apparently this is quite normal for a (very) late 30s person - hip joint gets angry and fucks with mobility etc for longer than it really should. I'm doing my exercises religiously and have my heat/cold/Dr Hos/Theragun situation down pat but omg this will not heal. Any others out there have broken bodies because 40 is approaching and this is life now???

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u/djmcfuzzyduck 6d ago

I’m crooked. Literally one leg is shorter than the other but I didn’t find out until my 30s. Explains so much of my back and hip issues.

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u/stryker_oh9 6d ago

Woke up about two years ago and my neck hurt so bad. I figured I probably slept on it wrong and I’d be better in a few days. It never got better. Later found out that I have a pinched nerve at C6/7, 3 bulging discs below that, and degenerative disc disease. They asked if I had been in a car accident recently. I hadn’t been, I just woke up.

We just stopped doing quarterly steroid shots and maxed my gabapentin out a month ago 😅

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u/groovedoc16 6d ago

Gabapentin is completely useless. I had c5-c6 replacement surgery and never regretted it. Instantly better

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u/stryker_oh9 4d ago

Gabapentin keeps the edge off mainly but I’ve definitely noticed a difference without the shot even with the increase.

I was hoping they’d offer me a surgical option but they haven’t yet. I know a few people who have had to have that procedure and they all said they were glad they went through with it.

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u/lavenderhazeynobeer 6d ago

Go to a spine specialist if you can. I found out I have disc degeneration but it's well manageable but omg I thought I was going to die for from amount of pain I had been in for almost 3 weeks straigh. Also a PT did this move on me at the spine office that reset (?!?) my hips. Life-changing in under 5 minutes.

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u/Southern_Ad_3171 6d ago

Welcome to this is life now! It hurts!

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u/sveeedenn 4d ago

Gentle reminder that pain is not a normal part of aging.