Hip hip, ow?

PAIN.

I've had problems with my hips for a while now. They feel tight sometimes, and when I stretch they sometimes make this loud disgusting pop/crack noise. This can't be good. 

I woke up on Sunday only to find myself in excruciating pain. I thought at first I had just slept on it wrong, and then it just got worse as the day went on. i am NO BABY when it comes to walking around in the city. Sure I get pissed when my sister takes us the wrong way and makes me walk like a mile out of the way, but honestly I get over it. This was a different kind of pain. It wasn't like a muscle strain at all, this felt like the bone. 

On your femur (the upper part of your leg), you have two notch like protuberances. They are referred as the greater and lesser trochanter. The greater trochanter is on the upper outside portion of the head of the femur. It was there, that I was having pain. It almost felt like it wasn't in place, it was out of socket like a dislocation. This happened to my collar bone on the right side a few weeks ago. I slept on it wrong, and I felt like it popped out and I couldn't pop it back in. Disgusting as it is, I had to have my Dad help me out. It did end up popping out of place and it had to go back in somehow. It didn't hurt as bad as it sounds, trust me. It's happened to me before, so I knew what it felt like. This hip thing is entirely something new.

Hien had me do all kinds of stretches in the middle of the street in Brooklyn. I didn't care if I looked like an idiot, I was willing to do whatever it took to make the pain go away. It started to interfere with the way I walked. Like I had a limp, and looked like an Asian Quasimoto. Totally not attractive. It's hard to describe what it felt like. I have never had this problem before. Hien thinks maybe it has something to do with my weight/weight loss but I don't believe it for a second. This is the FIRST time this has happened to me. If I stemmed from my weight, I would have had pain all along. I'm pretty sure I had hip dysplagia as a child, so it's probably not all that uncommon. 

That night I tried my best to sleep flat on my back. I woke up this morning, and the pain had subsided significantly. I'm pretty sure that one of my SI joints was out of place. I need to go to a chiropractor. It's a done deal, I'm going to have to go. If I want to get all lined up again, and not have this pain I'm just going to have to swallow my pride and just freaking do it. UGH but I'm scared...

There will be no hip hip horrays in this blog entry today.