Starting getting some pain Wednesday night around my right greater trochanter. Assumed it was just tendon issue and tried to do some mobility work. It’s gotten progressively worse to where I couldn’t sleep, and had a constant stabbing pain just under the GT and my ass/hamstring area.
Went to urgent care, they told me to go to the ER due to the pain level. This is the worst pain I’ve ever been in. Limped into ER in tears and here I am.
Doc thinks either and infection (waiting on blood cultures) or muscle tear. He said hamstring. We’ll see.
Home now. MRI showed multiple muscle tears. ER doc wasn’t too specific, just said glute max and some other adductor. Going to Ortho Monday to discuss severity and options. Hoping he doesn’t suggest surgery, but if this pain persists, sign me up.
Man, I have impeccable timing for this kind of stuff. No idea when I’m going to see the Ortho, office closed until Wednesday. So even if I get a call, who knows when I’ll be seen.
Right glute definitely not fully attached at the bottom from what I can tell. Can flex at the top, but near the femur isn’t doing anything. Pain has gotten better, but getting up or sitting down is still excruciating.
I’m gonna have some big arms after all is said and done because it’s upper body only for the foreseeable future.
I’m feeling a lot better, almost normal. Pain is gone aside from a tender spot on the side of my leg.
I’ve not seen an Ortho yet, they gave me an appointment late August (useless). I was however able to get the radiologist write up from my MRI. No high grade tearing but partial tear of glute max and possible external obturator. Avulsion injury at junction point with debris around joint. My buddy who’s a PT explained that one to me and apparently it means the tendon tore with a piece of bone stuck to it. Also partial labrum tear which may or may not have been related to this incident.
Long story short, it was painful but no surgery needed in the short term. I was able do some squats with just the bar last night to full depth, no pain.
Well, the only way I can figure it, is it stemmed from a fall off my bike. I took up BMX a few months ago and learning means falling (on concrete). I’ve had a few nasty spills that left me with bruises and some skin missing. I did have a bruise in the spot where the tendon tore about a month ago, but it wasn’t anything abnormal.
So I’m thinking fall trauma injured the area and squat/deadlift session was the straw that broke the camel’s back since that’s when the pain began.
Getting better each day. Even did some light deadlifts last night.
Many moons ago I was at the Hampton Roads supertrack, which had asphalt burms. A first for me! I broke my wrist there when I missed the backside of a big double and just landed pretty much flat. That hurt pretty bad, but no long term damage.
Now, if I understand it right, a whole shit ton (pretty much all) of tracks have mixed materials.
Oh, I’m just doing street so even worse. Jumping off stairs and loading docks onto concrete. Lol.
Never been on a bmx track. Grew up doing motocross though. I figured bicycles would be safer than dirt bikes now that Im middle age with kids. So much for that.
