Pain - Dallas,TX

If you have your hands on your hips with the thumbs towards the back, then you are on the back of the hip socket.

If you are higher than that on your back (like, lower back) it could be kidneys. That's one pain I know very well...but it's higher than you are describing.

(I must be putting my hands lower than everyone else. When I put my hands on my hips, they aren't at the level of my waist or kidneys. I now have a picture of us all standing up, with our hands on our hips.)

I have had pain in my hip joints, but only during my last pregnancy when the effects of increased relaxin (or whatever it's called) in my body caused my hip joints to loosen to the point that they almost became dislocated. I had to wear a support brace around my hips, and it helped tremendously.

Try taking a towel and wrapping it as TIGHTLY as you can around your hips, making sure you cover from the top of your thighs to above the pain. If your pain improves, this may be what you need to have checked out...usually by a PT, who will prescribe a brace.

Other than that...not sure.

Are those muscles tight? If so, I suggest that finding a way to relax them might help. Have you tried ice? That sometimes works when heat doesn't.

Perhaps lie on your back on the floor with your legs on the seat of a chair or sofa will take some of the pressure off of your back. Laying flat, with your legs flat increases the tension in your lower back.

If the muscles don't seem to be involved and the pain is more internal than that you may have an infection. But it sounds like you have pain in specific places on either side of your lower back. That does sound more like muscle pain.

Take Aleve (naproxen), it's a better anti-inflametory than other pain relievers, according to my doctor. When muscles are tense they become inflamed.

It's highly unlikely that you'd have a cyst in both ovaries tho you could have a kidney infection in both kidneys. If you did, tho, you'd have a UTI with those symptoms too.

The sacroiliac joint in the pelvis can sometimes get out of place. It is the joint that allows women's hips to expand during pregnancy. When it gets out of place it feels like you are being stabbed in he back.

To fix mine I roll up a folded towel and place it in the small of my back and lean back in a chair, sometimes with a heating pad. You want to towel to resemble a neck roll but really firm. If you have a recliner it works better. The rolled towel just seems to push it back in place. It doesn't work quickly but it does work.

My son can adjust it also if I lay on the floor on my belly, head on folded arms, and he does a quick but firm push to that joint.

Is this what hurts????

If I am understanding placement right....Possibly an ovarian cyst? Or another form of cyst?

That is just my first guess at it though.

Try googling sciatica and see if that matches your symptoms.

Are your thumbs on your front (which I agree could be ovarian issues)? Or your BACK?

If it's the BACK, waist high about 3 inches off each side of your spine...... that's the kidneys. I'd say kidney infection..... which isn't anything to play around with.

Chiropractor or sports medicine guy would fix you up.