Hip Injection #8...done

I was able to get in for an injection yesterday afternoon purely by the grace of G-d...and maybe a little begging on my part to "please take me out of my misery"!! Driving down I could barely sit, the posterior joint pain and lateral posterior pain (what I believe to be ischiofemoral impingement (IF) was really awful. Before I had left my house, I tried some pain provocation tests so that I could have a baseline and a before and after. I did a lunge with the left leg in front and on a stool, some impingement tests and some other movements of the leg. The injection was more painful than I remember it ever being, probably because I have scar tissue built up in there. Before the injection the radiologist tried to provoke pain, he did some FAI tests and they hurt in the groin, he could not reproduce the posterior pain but I explained that I had been able to earlier. He told me to check those maneuvers out again later. I said if I could drive home without pain I would be thrilled!! After the injection most of the tests he did provoked no pain anymore. I limped back to my car, sat down and panicked...the back of my hip still hurt. After a minute, I guess the drugs made their way back there and posterior pain was GONE! I drove home comfortably and happy. The IF pain was still there but without the posterior joint pain it seemed a lot more manageable. After 3 hours my "honeymoon" was over and the pain hit hard. When the kids were finally in bed I was able to ice for about an hour. I then decided to go to sleep but the pain was there so I went back for the ice and ended up falling asleep with it on until I woke up 3 hours later! This morning I think the posterior pain is better, the true test will be when I get into the car in an hour! Keeping my fingers crossed