Sorry, Dave.    

I had picked an August 10k as my goal race for the year and I'll likely either not do it, or not be able to really race it if I do.   It sucks, I know.

I have an appt with a physicians asst on Tuesday.   I freaked myself out last night since the pain I have is also in a common pelvic stress fracture area, but I sort of doubt that's it.   Dr. Google can sure be convincing sometimes.

From what I can tell, it's the inferior pubic ramus.  Seems like every time someone said they had a pelvic sfx, it was there!

MTA: To be more specific... the inferior pubic ramus (I think) is sore to the touch.  Then when I walk or run the pain is in the upper, inner thigh - and it runs around to the back of leg, like the top of the hamstring/butt.  It hurts sharply when I step, but if I am not moving, for the most part, it's a nagging soreness.

From what I can tell, it's the inferior pubic ramus.  Seems like every time someone said they had a pelvic sfx, it was there!

 

MTA: To be more specific... the inferior pubic ramus (I think) is sore to the touch.  Then when I walk or run the pain is in the upper, inner thigh - and it runs around to the back of leg, like the top of the hamstring/butt.  It hurts sharply when I step, but if I am not moving, for the most part, it's a nagging soreness.

Nope, I've had fractures in my superior pubic rami too!  I don't remember it running around to the back of my leg, though (and I had a few sacral fractures at the time, too, so you'd have expected my back to hurt, but it didn't).  Or it being sore to the touch.  Dr. Google is really great at creating panic and mayhem, though.  I hope it turns out not to be a sfx!!

Oski - my pelvic sfx did run to the back of the leg as well as hurting in the pubis.  When it healed, that was the part that took the longest to stop hurting.

My current issue is still uncertain.  It feels like another pelvic sfx - like I'm being hit with an ice pick in the groin when I run - but it doesn't hurt when I'm standing on one leg, and I can hop on one leg without pain.  Last time, any time my leg was weight bearing it hurt.  Now it hurts when I'm sitting but not when I'm standing.  I can walk okay, but not run.  My muscles are really tight, so it could be muscle or tendon - but I can't tell. When doing leg lifts one day, I could feel pain at a point where muscle attaches to the bone, but I've done leg lifts since then without a problem.  I was able to run one day this week.  It hurt a little the first 1/4 mile, then I was okay, achy but not in pain, then it started to hurt a lot around mile 4 and I stopped at 5.  That was two days ago.  Today it hurt a lot from the start, so I quit at a mile.  I think I won't be running my HM in September.

From what I can tell, it's the inferior pubic ramus.  Seems like every time someone said they had a pelvic sfx, it was there!

 

MTA: To be more specific... the inferior pubic ramus (I think) is sore to the touch.  Then when I walk or run the pain is in the upper, inner thigh - and it runs around to the back of leg, like the top of the hamstring/butt.  It hurts sharply when I step, but if I am not moving, for the most part, it's a nagging soreness.

I had this injury and the tell tale sign of a stress fracture in that area is that it is impossible to put your pants on without sitting down.  When you stand on one leg and bend it like you would to put on pants (to put the other leg in), it's so painful that you have to stop.  I had soreness in the area of the injury and also had pain actually on my outer thigh down to my knee, but nothing that radiated to the back of the leg.  Running was nearly impossible.

I hope this is not what you have.  Unless you've had it for quite a while, it won't show up on an X-ray.  You would need an MRI or bone scan.  Mine showed up on the X-ray because I couldn't get into the doctor until 6 weeks after I injured it.

Good luck to you!

Dammit... now my PF is so bad I'm disabled again!  What the hell?

 

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 Bummer!

I've been out of commission since the end of June with a herniated disc that affected the nerve going down my left leg. I was unable to walk and had  to use crutches to get around. I've been feeling much better and I am in my 2nd week of PT. Today I walked unassisted!!! I am officially done with the crutches and can now just use a cane. It is a HUGE breakthrough and even though I still have a long way to go, I am really excited! I just had to share!

Ortho guy says I strained something in my hip flexor/groin (no, really?), PT for four weeks.  He said "try not to run".   He also said "you are going to need to rehab big time."  X-rays were clear.

 

So, yay?

I have a chronic hf issue (minor for a while). I would recommend seeing a chiro for ART, and preferably one who uses kinesio tape. I learned how to tape it (half as good) as my chiro. The injury seemed to start in the groin area.