A Couple of New Diagnoses

About a week after my November visit with  Dr. Hip, I was getting up from the bed in a lying down position to put my son to to bed. I felt my left hip lock up and had some excruciating pain in the front. When it subsided,  i got up and the anterior part of my groin was very sore. Of course as most of us labral patients think, I thought I retore my labrum, or I was afraid that the suture anchors came out. I thought " what have I done?" I'd hoped I didn't ruin any of the work that had been done. I went to PT for a few more sessions and he thought maybe I had just moved the wrong way or something. My next Dr. appointment wasn't until December 5th, so I waited to see if the pain would just "go away" instead of calling his office. I only call there if I absolutely have to.  Well, the pain/soreness got really bad that I thought I could use a cortisone shot and i told myself that I would ask for one when I went for the office visit. My limping got worse and I was getting stiff on the outer hip area. Every time I would raise my leg, my thigh muscles would feel so sore and I would feel pain when i pressed on the front of my groin. The pain somewhat resembled the pain of a labral tear, but I didn't remember the pain on palpation with a tear. This was a different kind of a pain.
December 5th 2014
Office visit with Dr. Hip
I was limping so bad from the hip pain and my ankle seemed pretty normal. I had slight swelling in the ankle but not really much pain, at least not that debilitating deep pain. When he had asked me about the ankle, I kind of brushed it off because my hip was hurting now. It seemed that the pain went from the ankle to the hip. Oh boy, where to next, was all I could think of. I told Dr. Hip that once the swelling in the ankle went down, the pain wasn't too bad. But that was one set back that I totally did not expect to have. He assessed my hip and diagnosed me with hip flexor tendonitis, and that the locking up that I felt was the hip flexor.  I had never had tendonitis, so this WAS a new pain I was feeling. As much as I wanted a shot that day, he suggested I try PT first and to call if I feel I needed a shot. I guess because my hip exam wasn't so good and i was having stiffness and pain, he did an xray that showed Heterotopic Ossification. Could this experience get any worse for me? I felt like a case study. Every time I went for an office visit, I had something new wrong with me. I fell into the 1-5% of everything here. But I was willing to deal with whatever God gave me. There was no treatment given for the H.O. as of this visit, just to follow up with him in 6 weeks for another xray. PT taught me some good stretches to do for the tendonitis.