GROIN PAIN? WHERE AND HOW FEELS?

[emmamom]

When you experience groin pain, can you describe how it feels? Do you sometimes have on one side and not the other? Where exactly is the pain on your body? Does it sometimes radiate to the back?

[SheffieldJane]

It was a very early PMR symptom for me, it made it difficult to walk properly, we used to joke that we walked like penguins. It was bilateral and often my first twinge of an impending flair. No sign of it now, except general leg aches. It was where my legs joined my torso and sometimes it was on one side. It made steps difficult, getting out of bed tricky and getting in and out of the bath impossible, without help. I hope this helps!

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Like SJ it was an early symptom of PMR for me too. I even thought at one time I might need a hip replacement - it was sharp, deep in the joint and worst when I stood from sitting and started to put weight on it. It did ease a bit after a few minutes moving about. It also ached, a dull throbbing ache, at night,

[Crackers1964]

The good news is that it does go.

Interesting for me - after covid and just recently, I’ve had a flare up. I’ve increased my prednisone as my rheumatologist says it’s common after a virus to have a flare up.

[cranberryt]

Mine is either felt where my inner thighs meet the torso or in the back of my body under my buttocks where my leg meets the torso. It’s a deep ache though sometimes it can be a little stabby when I am walking. Mine has never radiated to the back but has been known to radiate down the front of my thigh towards the knee. My 1.5 mg of prednisone takes care of it.

[Hopingsail]

As Cranberryt - mine is where inner thighs meet with the torso. It refers a bit down the inside thighs. It is a deep ache, not severe or disabling, but I take it as a protest from the PMR! It has occurred as I have moved through the 5-week Slow Taper on to a new dose; noteable more since I got down to7mg. I'm now on 5.5 but been resting a coupe of weeks on week 5; I usually find that by repeating a week nor two that the ache subsides (so far anyway!)

[enduros]

This was also an early symptom for me as well. Occurred in the inside of both thighs simultaneously, at the top, generally if I had been sitting down for a while; time of day was irrelevant. When I stood up, I would have to almost hunch over a little bit to keep it from hurting too much, but it would loosen up if I stayed on my feet. I thought perhaps I wasn’t exercising enough or needed yoga or something like that.

After about 6 to 8 weeks of that being the only symptom, the more common symptoms hit me very quickly in the space of about one or two weeks. My arms became effectively useless. I couldn’t stand up from a seated position without extreme pain. I could not pick up clothes from the floor. Oddly, the inner thigh pain was gone when all the other symptoms took over.

Thankfully, a rheumatologist diagnosed PMR at my first visit, and I got on prednisone promptly which helped.