Hello ehealthy people!

After much deliberation i've decided to make a post of me own. I've been reading some of your posts, that seem to be similar in many ways to my little "technical difficulty", but none exact. (such in any case is hard to find!)

anyways, here I am, eighteen years old, not overweight, otherwise healthy, previous broken bones include left wrist, left toe, right tib\fib (3-4 years ago).

I'm currently having some major difficulties with my right hip. It is an awful internal pain that starts (as I can imagine) right around the ball joint and radiates towards the knee. When I walk funny (rotating the straight leg either l\r ) there is a sharp "snap" followed by a numbness. My thought is that is snaps slightly out of place, thus, I stand on my left leg, holding a wall and bring my right leg up slowly so that my knee is near my chin. Another shotgun-audible "crack" can be heard (much to the displeasure of others)as the joint replaces itself, and I continue on my way, limping as necessary.

I convinced myself not to make a fuss, and it didn't hurt this badly for two years since it started...Suddenly I found myself unable to run well, and more recently, have started having difficulties with staircases. It had taken about three months for a doctor to see me...And i'm on the waiting list until january to get an mri.... I imagine that this is more than a muscle-cartilage problem, just from the sound and feel..

Anyone else experienced anything like this? (( I imagine that most people with these type of problems are in their eighties ....))

i'd like to hear of any trials\tribulations\and otherwise "input" on such situations!

Thanks alot!

~monkeybones~