Timeline

I know that my blog, up until now, has been out of order and maybe confusing at times, so I would like to make a timeline of events to make it clear what led up to 3 surgeries.
November 2005- Jk was born (2nd child, boy) via VBAC, I felt hip pain, but what didn't hurt! Pain went away on its own.
November 2006- Hip pain came back, ignored it for 2 weeks, on Jk's birthday (how ironic) pain was AWFUL, had 3 different PT's work on it, PT only made it worse
Dec 2006- Exercise makes my hip hurt more, manual therapy makes my hip hurt more, time to look into seeing a hip specialist
Dec 2006- Don't get to bed until after midnight, for weeks as I am doing tons of hip research and investigating specialists, come across 2 articles in JOSPT that are encouraging. Found hip labral tear and FAI web forums, learn a ton from other people's experiences
Dec 2006- Choose hip doc, get an appt one month later (see earlier post)
Jan 2007- See hip doc, agrees with self diagnosis, order's MRI (no injection, he believes his MRI machine is good enough to pick up a labral tear without contrast)
Jan 2007- Receive call form hip doc's PA, MRI showed tear and FAI, go get diagnostic injection and make an appt to see hip doc 2 weeks after
Jan 2007- Have injection (see earlier post), injection provides immediate relief
Jan 2007- Go to Disney World!!!!
Feb 2007- See hip doc again, he is pleased that I got relief with injection, lets hold off on surgery, maybe the injection was enough. I don't agree, I want to get this over and done with, as long as he feels comfortable operating. He says "oh, I feel comfortable, I just didn't know if you did!!"
Feb 2007- Schedule first hip scope for March 5
March 2007- First post-op visit, 1 1/2 weeks later, things seem to be going well, I mention that my other hip hurts, he says its compensation, we leave it at that, he wants to see me in 6 weeks
April 2007- 2nd post-op visit, at this point, the other hip is becoming a major issue, I make it very very clear to him, most importantly, it is affecting my rehab on the operated hip, so I want it injected, just for pain relief, he agrees and wants an MRI too
May 2007- 7am MRI followed by 12pm injection, relief with second injection
May 2007- doc calls, MRI positive, looks identical to MRI on other hip. He generally will operate a second time 8-12 weeks out from the first
May 2007- after 3 sleepless nights, I schedule the second surgery, they will be 17 weeks apart
June 28 2007- Twisting motion while applying make-up causes loud, painful pop in right hip
July 2 2007- Left hip arthroscopy, findings: torn labrum, cam and pincer impingement,loose bodies
July 18 2007- 1st post-op appointment, right hip pain is compenastion, left is doing fine
July 26 2007- Right hip is unbearable, call doc, decide to schedule MRI
July 31 2007- Right hip MRI- shows farying of labrum anteriorly and Cam impingement, doc says it is nothing to worry about, do I want injection? I will think about it
August 28 2007- Finally have arthrogram (intra-articualr injection), got 3 painfree hours
August 29 2007- See doc, discuss cam impingement in right hip, he tells me that sometimes he needs to do revision surgeries in cases like this
September 2007- Discuss situation with doc, he believes it may be my psoas as well, schedule CT scan, scan inconclusive
October 2007- Doc strongly suspects psoas involvement, I still disagree, we agree to try a psoas injection, bad reaction, mild pain relief
October 2007- See doc post-psoas injection, beg him to put me out of my misery, we agree to set a tentative date for surgery and wait 1 week to see how I fare with injection
October 2007- Injection did not help, Nov 12 2007 date set for Right hip revision arthroscopy
November 12 2007-Right Revision Hip Arthroscopy, cam impingement, scar tissue, synovectomy
April 2008- Get pregnant with Zk
January 2009- Zk is born, once again via VBAC (drugless too)
June 2009- After sitting in Indian Style for 30 minutes, I procees to stand up and hip is too painful to stand on
June 2009- MRI of R hip shows increased signal in capsule
July 2009- Intra-articular injection of right hip gives approximately 2 days of relief
September 2009- PRP injection of the joint capsule gives no relief
September 2009- BK tells me he thinks I need exploratory surgery (this will be surgery #4)
September 2009- I freak out, BK agrees to try one more injection
October 2009- Synvisc + Cortisone injection scheduled for right hip
November 2009-Schedule Hip Arthroscopy #4 (#3 for right side)
November 2009- Hip Arthroscopy #4 for possible HO, labral tear and capsular shift
February 2010 Hip begins to feel unstable, joint pain becomes awful at times
February 2010 I begin to become concerned that I have a TON of hip ER, despite capsular shift
March 2010 MRI to see what the issue is (this time...sigh)
March 2010 BK thinks it may be my psoas or capsule or scar tissue
March 2010 Discuss possibility of dynamic ultrasound and/or dynamic CT scan