First of all, I’ve already decided that if this lasts through the weekend, I’m going to see my doctor, so this isn’t so much medical advice as curiosity.
Since Tuesday night, I’ve had this piercing pain in my upper thigh when I get up out of or sit down in a chair, and when walking, and also when I turn my leg to one side or the other. It’s not constant…if I’m already sitting in most positions, it doesn’t hurt at all. But it’s VERY painful. I’m downing ibuprofen for it right now.
At first I thought it was a problem with my femur or the hip joint, since it feels “deep”, like the pain is under the quadruceps muscle. But the “comes and goes” nature of it makes me think it’s a pinched nerve, instead.
So, if it IS a pinched nerve, what do they usually do for that?
Possibly. It sounds like what I’ve been having, on and off- which I’ve been told is a trapped nerve. Ibuprofen did nothing for me though- codeine helped a lot more. It got bad enough a few weeks back that I couldn’t really even walk for about 5 days. It’s barely an occasional twinge now though.
If it’s the same, the treatment I’ve been offered has pretty much been ‘try not to aggravate it, down painkillers, and hope it stops soon’. Hope you get something better.
I had a pinched nerve in my neck last year (causing off-and-on shooting pains all through my arm) and the only treatment that worked was a cortisone shot.
Sciatic nerve pain is mostly down the back of the leg, but depending on where the nerve is pinched in the lower spine, nerve pain from lower back problems can go from the buttock/hip to the quads as well. I have this most of the time, very mildly and intermittently…when it goes nuclear I can hardly stand and the pain is excruciating and unrelenting. It tends to be self-limiting, though and goes away on its own eventually (in my experience.) The only thing I go to the doc for is opiate pain-killers just to get me through the worst of it.
Nerve pain: muscle relaxants or meds such as Neurontin, ice and heat, some exercises help a lot too. Sometimes a steroid shot, like Freddy said.