Well, I have constant pain in my hips and trp's in my butt aplenty. First I tried treating myself with an emphasis in the trp's. And, you know, it pretty worked. I'd forgotten that. For the past few months, I've gone the other direction, treating the hip joints. Still have pain, and trp's now that I've checked. Hmmmmm.
About a month ago, I wondered if I should see a BP therapist that's here. Just a kind of trp tune up. I do them myself, but there's I've noticed that having them done by a professional gets better and quicker results.
Glad you wrote. I'll be working on those trp's today and looking at my budget to see how I can swing a few sessions.
Hope others weigh in on this, and please keep your progress updated. I'm so damn sick of pain in my hips. I was up half the night last night with it.

thankyou for your reply I have physio on Tuesday hoping it will all soon go away like yourself I am sick of pain and trying to explain to people about this disorder because we look ok no one gets it i find the whole thing very depressing i will keep you posted I ahve not been on the forum for ages have had trouble logging in seems to be sorted now i do find it helpful

I've had pain in my hips stemming from what I believe are trigger points in my low back/ glute region. I find foam rolling and working on the TrPs with a tennis ball really helps.

Good luck!

Bullring, do you have the Trigger Point therapy workbook? It is the best resource for locating the trouble makers. I started feeling TrPs in my butt/hip area about a month ago too. I have been working on them using a ball. I usually use it on the floor instead of against the wall. I can get deeper. This work 4+ times a day has kept them under control. As Asunda mentioned a trigger point therapist is even better because they get to all those nasty critters. But I feel you will still need to self treat daily. I hope BATW sees your post and responds, because he has been successful with this method of treatment. Good luck on your quest for answers to your hip pain. Let us know what works for you.

Thankyou all for your feedback my doctor has jsut checked my hips and says that it is the mps I have physio tomorrow and have been stretching them I am to rest them and take some pain killers and carry on with my muscle relexants so fingers are crossed for a sppedy recovery of course the weather does not help with all this rain and damp around hugs to you all

Welcome back :)

Do you have any idea what's precipitated this increase in pain? For me that's my first thought. Something's changed and is giving you pain by the bucket-load.

Being to odd renegade that I am I would suggest you go through the symptom checker at http://www.triggerpointproducts.com/checkyoursymptoms rather than the 'trigger point therapy workbook'. The book just doesn't work for me! I'm odd, what can I say.

If you go through the symptom checker front and back you'll see some suspicious trigger points:
- in the mid-back area (just above the waistband) (quadratum lomborum)
-at the very top of the thigh/hip at the side (tensor fasciae latae)
-upper buttock (piriformis)
-a couple of other areas in the buttock (gluteous maximus) there's a sort of diamond shape between the trigger points of the piriformis and the gluteous maximus! But if the trigger points are massive you're looking at the whole of the buttock on the affected side being trigger points - I'm sighing in sympathy with you!
-in the middle of the hip (gluteous minimum)
-also, possibly, the middle of your calf (soleus)

and that's just for starters. Paul Ingraham describes the areas to massage for the hips in his 'perfect spots' series; perfect spot numbers 2, 6 & 12:

Perfect spot No 2:
"This Perfect Spot lives in the thoracolumbar corner, a nook between your lowest rib and your spine right where the stability of the rib cage gives way to the relative instability of the lumbar spine. Muscle tends to bunch up around this joint between the last of the thoracic vertebrae and the first of the lumbar. The sweet spot consists of trigger points in the upper-central corner of the quadratus (square) lumborum muscle and in the thick column of muscle that braces the spine."

Perfect Spot No 6:
"When you have back pain, buttock pain, hip pain, leg pain, much or even all of your trouble may well be caused by trigger points in the obscure gluteus medius and minimus muscles, a pair of pizza-slice shaped muscles a little forward of your hip pocket. Other muscles in the region are usually involved as well, such as the gluteus maximus, piriformis, and the lumbar paraspinal muscles. However, the gluteus medius and minimus are a bit special: their contribution to pain in this area is particularly significant, and yet people who have buttock and leg pain rarely suspect that much of it is coming from muscle knots so high and far out on the side of the hip."

Perfect Spot No12:
"At the top of the gluteal muscles lies a Perfect Spot among Perfect Spots: a sneaky but trouble-making brute of a TrP that commonly forms in the roots of the gluteus maximus muscle, just below the pit of the low back, but experienced as low back pain. This is the kind of spot that the Perfect Spots concept is really all about not only does it tend to produce a profound and sweet ache when massaged, but the extent of the pain that spreads out around it is almost always a surprise."

It's worth looking at the full details for each 'spot' in the ebooks, as they give much more detail about location and treatment. I've copied the 'short version' of each of the 'spots'.

I get pain in my hips too and the thing that really did it for me was during the mad-crazy first six months of 2011 when I was working too many hours whilst being amazingly stressed (I think my stress level was 640-ish when 300 is the cutoff for 'high' stress). And the chairs I was using weren't helping, especially as I was using a number of 'hard' chairs whilst doing various projects and meetings.

Things began to get steadily better after I stopped being at work. Eventually the magic combination of resting loads, self TP massage using my oil-mix, gentle hip stretches and walking more has reduced the pain and stiffness. I'm still fighting for more permanent improvements, still having to work on it every day, but things are much, much better.

Keep an eye on your moods (the ehealth questionnaire from the painclinic.org has a simple test), we all know how draining this deep, dragging pain, never ending pain can be. Add in any prolonged stress and you've got a perfect environment for developing reactive depression.

I'm not sure if any of that is helpful! I am glad you've managed to fix your computer gremlins and pop back in though!

Hugs in total sympathy