You should go to the Emergency room. They have to see you. They need to check you out. Sometimes its a pinched nerve but it can get really bad and even be disfiguring. I hope you get some health insurance, but I would go anyway. You can end up incontinent or numb from this stuff, and you may have other damage or may even have a fracture. They have ... more

Hi-- My family doc won't refer me to a vascular surgeon for retroactive renal vein of common variation. She said that she thinks that "of common variation" means that lots of people have it and its an incidental finding. The report said right at the top "This is an abnormal test result." They found it on an MRI/CT for severe left hip, flank and le... more

I have been suffering with pain in my left buttock and lumber spine that we thought was due to degeneration, spondylosis, stenosis, and herniated discs pressing on the nerve roots. Despite all the fancy words, my lumbar spine is not that bad, it is relatively mild and has been very stable for many years. Recently, this buttock pain and swelling and... more