HIP PAIN

[5greyhounds]

Hello Once Again,

My Mother-in-Law is now in bed all day and night and only gets up to use the bathroom and go to her meals. She has fallen a couple of times in the last month and one fall landed her in the hospital for a thorough check. She was found to have no broken bones. She mentioned a pain in her hip when she went to swing herself into bed into a lying down position, but once in bed she had no pain and she had no pain sitting on the edge of the bed. Since her fall, this pain complaint may be strong at a moment of a given day and she is pleading for pain medications. However, if she gets up and walks to the bathroom and comes back to bed she may forget about her pain. She may go another week without any complaints, and then BANg! the pain is back and so extreme she says she can't stand it - and is pleading for pain medications. Do patience with PSP actually have the pain? Do they feel the pain? Imagine the pain? Forget quickly about the pain? We are so confused as to why the length of times between complaining about the pain? She has it in her mind that she hurts because she fell and she needs to go to the doctor to have it looked at and as soon as you remind her that she went to the hospital when she fell and was checked out, she doesn't say another word about it..... like there never was any pain. We are wondering if because of her constant lying in bed, it could be agitating the hip? Anyone have any experience where the complaint of pain is so far in between that you wonder if it is really there? OR?

Thank you for any ideas you may share ~!

[honjen43]

Hi 5greyhounds. I wonder whether the doctors may have missed a small bone fragment; or whether your mum just needs some Physio to strengthen pulled muscle and tendons in the hip. Or whether there is some compression damage in the lower spine.

I would take her back for another check!

I was suffering from sudden leg collapses a couple of years ago and kept falling. No serious damage, luckily, until I got severe pain in my lower back and after xrays and MRI, found 1 vertebrae was compressing the sciatic nerve. Following a steroid injection and rest, it has repaired and the other side has also collapsed with only minor reactions in other leg.

I have also been diagnosed since with osteoporosis.

So worth looking outside the square to make your mum more comfortable!

Hugs

Jen xxx

[Hidden]

Larry has a pain complaint about his right shoulder. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s arthritis.

[5greyhounds in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for your reply~! It very well could be some arthritis ?

[AJK2001]

It's never good for someone to be in the same position for long periods of time, which may not be helping. Can she not sit in a chair at all, even for 10-15 mins, it might help relieve muscular discomfort, if that is the problem.

Mum was complaining of some hip pain, she sits in the same chair all day, so I now try and get her to sit in her wheelchair each day, even if for only 20 minutes or if she won't do that at least get her to stand up & sit down again a few times.

Physio & OT have both said that any level of movement is better than none. I would ask your Physio about it, they maybe able to suggest some exercises she could do in bed that would help.

[5greyhounds in reply to AJK2001]

Thank you for your reply ~! Hoping to get her in different positions throughout the day to see if it improves.

[Tillie281]

Yes they feel the pain.

One day it was so bad that we rang for an ambulance.

My wife is on pain killers prescribed by the hospital staff.

I took lessons to massage, and treat her daily.

It seems to help her relax her muscles and I feel good because it is a way to

show my love for her

Google "The Easy Massage Work Book" "Clare Harris"

Works best when a pro demonstrates and explains.

I have a spare copy but live in Australia

T

[5greyhounds in reply to Tillie281]

Thank you ~! Appreciate the input