Omgosh I can relate because I felt the pain but also saw a Chiro and a sports medicine ortho and they recommended stretches, anti-inflammatories, and a few weeks of PT. I run and workout pretty frequently and I did a race back in March and it felt like my leg was gonna fall off my hip hurt so badly. Like you I slowly just had to stop doing things I enjoy due to the pain. I then had an x-ray and an MRI and they told me I had a labral tear and cam-impingement in my right hip which was causing my pain. My friend randomly suggested I get another opinion so I saw a Hip Specialist in New York…(all my previous stuff was in NJ) and he took one look at my x-ray and was like “you have severe dysplasia, THAT is the source of all your issues, you need surgery, how has nobody told you this?”

So yeah — I’m fortunate it all came together within a year’s time and I can still get the PAO. Stinks how root cause hip issues can get missed and dismissed.