A Question

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:33:34 -0600, "Auntie Em" <Auntie [email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I am a relatively healthy 48 year old woman. Lately, I have
been having a lot of pain in my hip joints. This only
happens, however, at night. There is no pain in my hips
during the day. Despite taking aspirin (I have problems
taking ibuprofen), the pain is still pretty bad.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

It could be most anything. Did you injure yourself doing
some physical activity.

See a real doctor. Why on earth would you be asking this
question in
an alternative health group?? This is a group to discuss
alternative
health medicine pro and con. It is certainly not a group
to diagnose
people's problems. You might have more luck on the
sci.med groups.

Quoted message said:

I am a little overweight (about 40 pounds), which, I
realize could be part of the problem.

It sure could.

Quoted message said:

But why am I feeling this only at night? This seems really
strange to me. Any ideas what would help alleviate the pain
(hot baths do help quite a bit)?

When you say you only feel it at night, do you also feel it
when you wake up first thing in the morning?? If so, does
the pain subside when you move around a bit. If this is the
case you could have arthritis but you need to see a doctor
for a definitive diagnosis.

Quoted message said:

Thanks in advance for your assistance. Boy, people on this
ng don't get along very well do they?

Em

Oh, and before I forget I would suggest that you see a
doctor Auntie Em. Good luck.

Aloha,

Rich

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Auntie Em Auntie said:

I am a relatively healthy 48 year old woman. Lately, I have
been having a lot of pain in my hip joints. This only
happens, however, at night. There is no pain in my hips
during the day. Despite taking aspirin (I have problems
taking ibuprofen), the pain is still pretty bad.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? I am
a little overweight (about 40 pounds), which, I realize
could be part of the problem. But why am I feeling this
only at night? This seems really strange to me. Any ideas
what would help alleviate the pain (hot baths do help
quite a bit)?

The obvious answer is that at night, you are lying down. It
could be something like arthritis, it could be your
mattress, it could even be that you're not sleeping in a
good position (for you). It could be that you're cold and
are tensing up.

Quoted message said:

Thanks in advance for your assistance. Boy, people on this
ng don't get along very well do they?

Some do. With some, it's a shooting war at all times.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my
opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I
have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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Quoted message said:

I am a relatively healthy 48 year old woman. Lately, I
have been having a lot of pain in my hip joints. This only
happens, however, at night.

There

Quoted message said:

is no pain in my hips during the day. Despite taking
aspirin (I have problems taking ibuprofen), the pain is
still pretty bad.

How long is lately? If you have persistent pain, you
definitely should see your doctor about it.

Quoted message said:

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? I am
a little overweight (about 40 pounds), which, I realize
could be part of the

problem.

Quoted message said:

But why am I feeling this only at night? This seems really
strange to me. Any ideas what would help alleviate the
pain (hot baths do help quite a bit)?

Hip pain often originates in the low back. This is what we
call "referred pain" because it is referred to a different
place from where it originates. See your doctor.

Quoted message said:

Thanks in advance for your assistance. Boy, people on this
ng don't get along very well do they?

Some people here want the world to conform with their
fantasies. They resent it when people who have taken the
effort to learn how the human body is put together and how
it really works point out the impossibility of their
"alternative medicine" notions, and respond with anger
because they do not have the ammunition to respond with
facts. It's like debating the existence of Santa Claus with
a 5-year-old. You'll never convince him, but you'll sure
[censored] him off. So threads that begin to discuss real issues
quickly degenerate into schoolyard name-calling. Sad, that.

Quoted message said:

Em

--
Waste not, time. For time is the stuff that life is made
of. -- Benjamin

Franklin

I like your sig line. Ol' Ben was a smart guy...one of
my heroes.

--Rich

Quoted message said:

This is a group to discuss alternative health medicine pro
and con. It is certainly not a group to diagnose people's
problems. You might have more luck on the sci.med groups.

I'm sorry I didn't realize this. Do you have a FAQ you can
post so I can better understand your ngs parameters?

Thank you.

Em