Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
How did you manage that? Yikes! Do tell
Ah it's lame. (Pun intended.) I've had hip pain on and off for 10+ years. Recently, it has been more consistent and more painful - on and off the bike. My bike fitter suggested I get it checked out to be sure there wasn't anything wrong, so I went to my orthopedic doc and had an X ray and exam. That revealed a "tumor" inside the hip bone (head of the femur), so he ordered a MRI and I waited around til I could do that, googling bone cancer and all that all the while. MRI showed no "bad" tumor, I have impingement of my hip bone such that the pelvis has worn a hole in the femur and the surrounding cartilage. Doc wants to try to avoid surgery because in his description, any hip surgery is "heroic". So I did some bike fit tweaks, and watching how I move it and will do some PT.

Ironically, now I have had to take a few weeks off the bike because of a trip and bad bronchitis, so it hasn't been hurting at all. I'm doing a 200k tomorrow so we'll see how it does. I didn't really feel like complaining about it on here, but when this thread got resurrected, I suppose I figured I'd just throw all MP's bone issues in to one place!