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Sure would appreciate prayer - my hip is bothering me a bunch.  I absolutely have to spend all but a very small amount of time sleeping on my left side.  If I do turn over for more than about ten minutes, then I better not have to get up and walk,  because it'll hurt on the left hip area.  If I then turn over to the left side, though, and am able to stay there for at least 15-20 minutes, then if I get up it doesn't hurt.  But once in a  while the left hip hurts when I lay on it, and then I don't have any position in which to sleep, as the back aches when I'm on it too long.  I've been to the chiropractor, and he says there isn't anything he can do for me that will last more than one night - I'm aged past the point where it will stay "in."  So then I have to sleep in the layback chair.  That gets old.  Please pray for me.  Thanks.

Old Al I mean Oh Al. I am so sorry to hear that you are having so much trouble with your back and hips.  I will definitely be in prayer for you brother.  I can feel your pain as I too have problems from time to time with pain in my hip area  when I am trying to sleep. Both of them hurting at the same time is so damaging to ones sleep.

Lord God I pray you will bring your healing comfort to my Brother, Pastor Al, so that he can get some  sweet sleep while you watch over him.  in Jesus name, Amen

Al, I will pray for you.  I, too, have hip pain from time to time...but nothing like yours.  I agree with Marilyn's prayer.

I'm here, too, Al, and I'm praying even as I type.  The pains I have are far less than what you are experiencing, but very troublesome, so I can't even imagine what you are going through.  Our Father knows, though ... and He fully understands. 

Dear Father, touch our brother and ease this pain.  Give him comfort and a peaceful, healing sleep ... I know You can do it and I trust You -- in all things.

Hi Al.  I will pray for you and I do suggest that you go and get some physio as it helped me a lot and they also did some accupuncture which I did not have much faith in but I can be a testimony that it sure helped me also. Keep the faith. God bless.

I'm praying, Al.

Kevin

Oh, my dear Al...  I'm praying for you.  I just did and will continue to do so, my dear friend.

Well I went and saw my regular MD, and, after much examination, he gave my condition a name: "Trochonteric Bursitis."  It turns out that there's a bursa (fluid sac) near the hip that cushions shock to the hip from the trochanter (femur bone to me).  If the bursa becomes inflamed, then there's pain.  I'm scheduled to see a phicasl therapist this Thursday.  Pray it'll do the trick.  I'm still trying to sleep in the layback, and, thankfully, I can.  But it's getting old.

Oh, my!  I've experienced bursitis in my shoulder area but never my hip.

Definitely, I'll be praying for you my dear friend.

God bless you richly.

Hi Al!

I'm praying for you, too!  I can relate to the not being able to sleep with my back, neck and jaw injuries.  Not really any position that works.  Makes most nights painful and sleep deprived.  I will pray the Lord grants you relief and sleep and maybe even something that will help you medically to feel better overall and last longer than one night.  Pain is sure exhausting.  You're in my prayers.

blessings, Kathleen

Tried to reply but the connection timed out. 

Wondering how things are going. 

I'm glad you ended up seeing a physical therapist.  My grandma was one and she, along with all the other PT's I've known (and yes, I've known several...my mom used to be a medical transcriptionist for a PT clinic and I've been going to one since my car accident at the end of August) can't STAND chiropractors.  In fact, my grandma told me about a guy that ended up at the hospital she worked at.  He'd been injured playing football.  He went to a chiropractor for a while but they weren't able to get his back to where it felt ok, he was just in lots of pain.  Finally he went to his regular doctor who sent him to the PT.  They x-rayed his back...it had been broken!  He'd been having his back tweaked by a chiro and it was broken the whole time.  I asked my current PT and she said that yes...she doesn't know a single PT who has much respect for a chiro.  My problem is with a chiro you have to keep going back where a PT tries to get it so they never see you again. 

Sara

Thanks so much Sara, Kathleen, and Pat.  So far, the PT has helped some, especially just after they do it.  But I'm still attempting to sleep in the layback - I thank our Lord for that chair!  Also, I'm beginning to wonder what caused the bursa to become inflamed in the first place - and whether it will continue to happen.  Hope to ask the PT when I go in Wednesday.  But I know that, no matter what else, our Lord is the true Physician, so thanks for your prayers, which I know He graciously answers.

Thanks SO much for praying!  The PT just yesterday decided that it wasn't PT I needed.  She told me to get an additional insert in the shoe on my left foot.  My leg is about 1/2 inch shorter on the left side, due to a car accident in 1977 oin which my femur was broken in three places.  So now I have the additional insert.  Please pray it works.

Hehe...an insert into your shoe is much cheaper at least than continuing with PT.  I'll pray it works wonders!

Sara

Dear Pastor:

I have found relief in an Inversion Table I bought from Teeter Hangups.  I suffer from a siatic nerve in my hip, and when it goes out, I want to go out too! really bad pain. but after using the teeter for 2 minutes, I am back to normal. I also have neck problems that at the base of my neck, I had an egg sized lump for years there that gave me all kinds of pain, and Praise God, it's gone.  since I have bought the teeter, I have seen other brands at Big 5 sporting for about 100 bucks, mine which is really good quality cost about 300, but the best money spent for sure.

God Bless......Mitch Muerle, Carson City. Nevada

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Thanks so much Mitch, Sara, et al.  The insert I had in the left shoe was just temporary, and it wasn't enough lift anyway, so today I'm going to a shoe shop in which there's a fellow who makes orthotics for people as well as rebuilding shoes to include lift or other special shapes.  He's been building me a lift, supposed to have it done, and I'm going to pick it up today.  Please pray it'll work.  Thank you, and thank the Lord.

Thanks for the update, Al.

I'm praying that this will work and relieve your pain.

Oh, I hope it works very well for you.  A woman at our church has a rare form of MD and has had to get shoes custom made before.  Right now, what she's done is get some shoes that were almost the right fit for her (her feet are seriously messed up anymore...she usually has to use a cane to keep from falling) and take out every bit of insole and such they had in them so she could put her inserts into them.  So, that might also be an option for you...take out the insole in the shoe for your longer leg (maybe just put a thin bit of something like the gel inserts) and then leave the insole in your shorter leg's shoe, and build it up by putting something under the orthotic which would give you just that much more lift on that side (though you'd never be able to tell looking at them from the outside).

Sara

Thanks Sara.  The fellow at the shoe shop seems to think this orthotic he made for me will do the trick.  I pray so.

Well, here's a bit of an update: after the thicker orthotics were inserted, I went a day or two, then, one day, I did the treadmill a bit longer than I had been doing.  That may have strained a muscle in my left side, just above the hip, because at about 1:30AM I ended up going to the ER.  It's gotten a little better since then, but it's still not right at all.  Xrays were taken, and an orthopaedist  has looked at them.  I have an appointment with him this next monday.  Please pray that he'll know what to do.

Al I'm sure you know by now these doctors are only "practicing medicine" ... We know the Great Physician, and He knows the exact cause and cure for your pain.  I am praying the specialists you are seeing will be able to tap into His knowledge and bring relief to your problems....

Ohhh, Al.  What agony.  I'm praying for you my dear brother.  Nothing so painful as hip pain.

God bless you.

Oh Al, let us know what the doctor says.

Well, after the orthopaedist gave me the shot things improved considerably for about 3/4 days, and I was becoming convinced it was going to actually be well.  But in the last two days it's gotten worse again, so I'm going to call the orho again, see what he says.  Please pray.

I am sorry, Al.  Have been following this and hoped you would get relief from the shot.  My daughter gets some sort of shot in  her neck every six months, from a specialist.  It helps a little..not a cure. Nothing can be done about her back.  Any relief is a blessing, right?  Will continue to pray.

Liz

How right you are, Liz!  Any relief IS a blessing!

As it turns out, the doc thinks maybe he didn't get it in exactly the right place, so now he's ordered a new shot, which will be given during fluroscopy, so they can see right where it's going.  That's supposed to happen at 1PM tomorrow.

I will pray it helps, Al.  The shot my daughter gets can only be done by one specialist on the island.  It must be in the right place!  So trust you are going to feel much better....

God Bless,

Liz

Thanks Liz - that's my prayer as well.  And I pray our Father will bless your prayer and make you know how He used it and you.

It's hard to know what to say.  They put me under fluroscopy, got a 7-inch needle ready, and attempted to make sure exactly where they injected a steroid.  Getting me situated and the needle in, etc. was physically hard, and when they were through it was as if I had been somewhat "beaten up."  Anyway, after a day or two it began to feel as if maybe they had done the needed job!  But, them, I decided to go ahead and try to sleep in bed Saturday night.  After about an hour I could definitely feel pain again.  I had to get up and go to the layback chair for the rest of the night.  That was discouraging, because it almost seemed like all that they had done was not of any lasting value.  I'll be seeing the orthopaedist again a week from tomorrow - hopefully to get some answers.  Please keep praying.

Al, it is hard to imagine what you are, and have been, going through.  That falls into the category of torture, in my book!!     Of course I will keep praying ... and praying ... and praying!