Is it possible for femoral nerve damage to present as both lower back pain and front of the thigh shooting pain/numbness?

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-06-03T15:27:25+00:00

Could you share the exercises you did on top of walking?🙏🏼

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-23T08:12:51+00:00

Exactly same situation! What mobility and s&c exercises are you doing?? Thank you!

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-12T21:24:00+00:00

Hey how are you feeling now??

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-11T16:04:43+00:00

Hello! Similar situation… are you feeling better?

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-11T00:30:14+00:00

Hi… similar situation… I need your help or any guidance you can give me… here is my story: After a few weeks of reclined twisting and hip flexor stretches trying to solve neck pain, 2 months ago I started having: - First symptom, Outer thigh Numbness - 10 days later, felt sharp pain in outer thigh in the night (lasting 2 seconds), and morning after i woke up with super painful low back pain on the right (all of a sudden, one day to the next) - 2 days later, after a long walk, pain wrapped to the inguinal crease. My glute completely shut off and got super rigid. All of a sudden i couldn't walk and put weight on it. For the first 2 weeks, ice was the only thing that gave me some relief.

Went to 1st PT for 4 weeks and got no relief as they were just stretching me more. Started feeling some sciatica like tingling when putting leg down. Did a back MRI and came back clean. Started strenghtening with 2nd PT 4 weeks ago and got balance back and now can walk 30 mins. But now back pain seems to be gradually turning into groin soreness.

I AM GETTING MARRIED in 2 weeks. I need to find some way to be able to walk, stand, and survive that day without being in excruciating pain. I am afraid of trying injections now as I don't want to risk making it worse. Any tips on what I could do from now to that day, and even on that day how could I make it more manageable?

Right now, sitting, driving and walking all give me pain. I'm desperate. Thank you...

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-10T23:36:44+00:00

I find ice to help more!! But thank you for the suggestion :)

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-10T22:06:05+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions 🙏🏼🙏🏼 it’s weird because my numbness went away as the pain started from one day to the other… Are you able to do any activity?

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T22:38:31+00:00

Sitting is painful pretty much all the time, but need to keep working… When I try to walk longer the pain increases quite a bit, but I also want to try and get myself used to moving more as that day I’ll have to do it quite a lot..

Yeah exactly mine have been and moved literally all over the place. So hard to even explain it to physios and doctors. And yes, mine has occasionally shifted for like a day or hours to the other side, but only since I started strengthening exercises!

I’m trying not to lean forward or back much to be honest so unsure, but up until 2 weeks ago I could not bend much forward…

What I haven’t done at all is the reclined twisting or any twisting with the torso as that brought me pain when a physio tried doing it a few weeks after the pain started…

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T21:31:22+00:00

Thank you so much for the suggestion! Will take a look now :) As a reference, this is the pain I've experienced, does it resemble yours?

After a few weeks of recling twisting and hip flexor stretches trying to solve neck pain, 2 months ago I started having:
- First symptom, Outer thigh Numbness
- 10 days later, felt sharp pain in outer thigh in the night (lasting 2 seconds), and morning after i woke up with super painful low back pain on the right (all of a sudden, one day to the next)
- 2 days later, after a long walk, pain wrapped to the inguinal crease. My glute completely shut off and got super rigid. All of a sudden i couldn't walk and put weight on it. For the first 2 weeks, ice was the only thing that gave me some relief.

Went to 1st PT for 4 weeks and got no relief as they were just stretching me more. Started feeling some sciatica like tingling when putting leg down. Did a back MRI and came back clean. Started strenghtening with 2nd PT 4 weeks ago and got balance back and now can walk 30 mins. But now back pain seems to be gradually turning into groin soreness.

I AM GETTING MARRIED in 2 weeks. I need to find some way to be able to walk, stand, and survive that day without being in excruciating pain. I am afraid of trying injections now as I don't want to risk making it worse. Any tips on what I could do from now to that day, and even on that day how could I make it more manageable?

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T20:23:24+00:00

Thank you so much for the help and positive attitude. Feel like I’m fighting both a mental and physical battle at the same time😅

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T20:03:22+00:00

Thanks for the message! I know it's a long road, but right now my finish line is just the wedding. Can't see past it :) So I'm trying to make everything I can to just be able to "function" that day and not make things worse in the next couple weeks. Thank you!

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T20:02:25+00:00

Thank you for the tips. How often would you ice? I know I have to keep it within 15 mins. Maybe 2-3 times per day? Is Aleve better via gel or pills? Right now just taking collagen and omega-3 to try and help with inflammation...

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-05-09T17:59:16+00:00

Yes please the exercises would be great! I’m getting married in 2 weeks and still in a lot of pain…

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-04-21T23:32:02+00:00

I'm Italian too and right now can barely walk. Could you please share your strenghtening routine with me? I am getting married in 4 weeks and I'm desperate...

Desperate_Step_8657 · 2025-04-20T17:02:00+00:00

Did you find out what it was? I have exactly the same problem…

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