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I’m 50 and feel that my right hip is slowly "going out". May take years. I walk 2 miles a day and I wear new jogging shoes. About every month, the right rear back of my right show only has noticeably worn away somewhat. I then get rid of them and put on a new pair of shoes. If instead I continue to wear the same shoes and to walk with them, I feel as if my right side or right hip is…"falling off" or is falling away to the right and down a bit. Throughout my life, I have always noticed the same wear pattern on my shoes: the right rear of the right shoe only wears away on the heel. I wonder what the technical term for this orthopedic condition might be? Can anyone guesstimate a point in time when the hip itself will need to be replaced? Is there something I can do NOW to alleviate this condition (built-up heel? tie-up my right hip with some support fabric?) ?
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I’m 50 and feel that my right hip is slowly "going out". May take years. I walk 2 miles a day and I wear new jogging shoes. About every month, the right rear back of my right show only has noticeably worn away somewhat. I then get rid of them and put on a new pair of shoes. If instead I continue to wear the same shoes and to walk with them, I feel as if my right side or right hip is…"falling off" or is falling away to the right and down a bit. Throughout my life, I have always noticed the same wear pattern on my shoes: the right rear of the right shoe only wears away on the heel. I wonder what the technical term for this orthopedic condition might be? Can anyone guesstimate a point in time when the hip itself will need to be replaced? Is there something I can do NOW to alleviate this condition (built-up heel? tie-up my right hip with some support fabric?) ?
Sounds like you need to see a sports doctor. I’ve had a problem with my right hip serious enough to stop me from exercising sometimes in the past, but through diet changes and supplements the problem has almost entirely gone away. I’m taking glucosamine pills among other vitamins and I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Amazing results after 3 years. First 2 years I just took the glucosamine and that helped. In the last year changed my diet. It feels so much better this year that I only ocasionally feel anything in my hip now, and it never stops me now. Your problem sounds like an alignment problem or something. But my advice is don’t give up on your current hip so fast. Try some stuff. – Tony
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I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Huh? How does this help the hip?
Yes it sounds strange. The way I understand it is this: the molecules of undigested potato and some other grains eaten in generious quantities bridge the digestitve tract and get into the body at large and are seen by the immune system as something undesired, setting the immune system to coat them with barrier molecules to keep them under control. The problem with this is that these molecules (potato and some grains) looks an awful lot like some connective tissue in the joints, so the immune response starts to attack the joints as well. I don’t have studies to point to – I read it in a diet/lifestyle book, but I can’t explain the dramatic improvement in my own condition absent the addition of these dietary changes. – Tony – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Gleshna – Multi-Thousandaire DA LAKES: Da Lake Tube: http://www.greatlakesurfing.com/images/Gallery/point.jpg Da new Lake Movie: http://www.unsalted.tv/ Da Bears ???????
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m 50 and feel that my right hip is slowly "going out". May take years. I walk 2 miles a day and I wear new jogging shoes. About every month, the right rear back of my right show only has noticeably worn away somewhat. I then get rid of them and put on a new pair of shoes. If instead I continue to wear the same shoes and to walk with them, I feel as if my right side or right hip is…"falling off" or is falling away to the right and down a bit. Throughout my life, I have always noticed the same wear pattern on my shoes: the right rear of the right shoe only wears away on the heel. I wonder what the technical term for this orthopedic condition might be? Can anyone guesstimate a point in time when the hip itself will need to be replaced? Is there something I can do NOW to alleviate this condition (built-up heel? tie-up my right hip with some support fabric?) ? Sounds like you need to see a sports doctor. I’ve had a problem with my right hip serious enough to stop me from exercising sometimes in the past, but through diet changes and supplements the problem has almost entirely gone away. I’m taking glucosamine pills among other vitamins and I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Amazing results after 3 years. First 2 years I just took the glucosamine and that helped. In the last year changed my diet. It feels so much better this year that I only ocasionally feel anything in my hip now, and it never stops me now. Your problem sounds like an alignment problem or something. But my advice is don’t give up on your current hip so fast. Try some stuff. – Tony
You are walking 2 miles a day and buying new shoes every month? Can I have your old ones. Many folks walk that far just doing housework. If you are having hip problems then you are in serious trouble. Perhaps you are not doing enough exercise to even work out the kinks for the day. Personally, I don’t worry about aches and pains for the first two miles of a run because usually they go away. It sound to me from your post that you don’t understand serious exercise and are a bit of a hypochondriac.
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I’m taking glucosamine pills among other vitamins and I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Tony I appreciate the advice, Tony. And, I understand what you are saying about the potatoes. The herbalist Dr. Andrew Weil went into some of that in his book Eat Right For Your Type. Saying that potato (which is a nightshade plant family vegetable) reacts differently to different people. He goes into (too much) more detail: talking about Blood types and plant "lectins", etc. But I get the basic idea. I like your direct approach: modify the diet and observe the results.
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You are walking 2 miles a day and buying new shoes every month? Can I have your old ones. Many folks walk that far just doing housework. If you are having hip problems then you are in serious trouble. Perhaps you are not doing enough exercise to even work out the kinks for the day. Personally, I don’t worry about aches and pains for the first two miles of a run because usually they go away. It sound to me from your post that you don’t understand serious exercise and are a bit of a hypochondriac. I’m getting towards old age, was heavy and am losing weight. Years ago, I was a top ranked tennis player –able to run for hours in the hottest sun on blazing hot courts. That was then and this is now. Now, I amble down the jogging path, walking along my 2 miles at about 2 or 3 miles an hour.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Huh? How does this help the hip? Yes it sounds strange. The way I understand it is this: the molecules of undigested potato and some other grains eaten in generious quantities bridge the digestitve tract and get into the body at large and are seen by the immune system as something undesired, setting the immune system to coat them with barrier molecules to keep them under control. The problem with this is that these molecules (potato and some grains) looks an awful lot like some connective tissue in the joints, so the immune response starts to attack the joints as well. I don’t have studies to point to – I read it in a diet/lifestyle book, but I can’t explain the dramatic improvement in my own condition absent the addition of these dietary changes. – Tony Gleshna – Multi-Thousandaire DA LAKES: Da Lake Tube: http://www.greatlakesurfing.com/images/Gallery/point.jpg Da new Lake Movie: http://www.unsalted.tv/ Da Bears ???????
blah – especially the whole coating/attacking thing – blah… that sounds horrible from a scientist point of view… How about something like potatoes and nightshade are in the same family (solanaceae)(1). Nightshade is toxic because of chemicals called solanines(2). So clearly we know that solanines can be in your blood stream and that these chemicals aren’t all that great. Now suppose, some people are more sensitive to solanines. Because these people react poorly to solanines they have mild immune response (similar to the "allergic" reaction). Note, when your body kicks on the immune response, it’s sort of an on or off thing. You either have a higher white count or you don’t. Ever had the aches when you had the flu? That’s part of the immune response. Autoimmune disorders (such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis) occur when the immune system acts to destroy normal body tissues(3). So Tony’s joint aches (due to "normal" inflammation) could be made worse by an immune response as well. And your body could potentially attack healthy tissue while on the attack for the allergens. For Tony, his hip ache was part of a larger immune response to an "allergy". Damn I’m so good at writing this pseudo-science "justification" babble, I should get my own natural health book. (1) http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/solanaceae/ (2) http://www.iowahealth.org/14210.cfm (2) http://health.yahoo.com/health/ency/adam/000821/overview
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lol sounds good to me Becca…
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I stopped eating potatos and generally cut back on eating wheat alot. Huh? How does this help the hip? Yes it sounds strange. The way I understand it is this: the molecules of undigested potato and some other grains eaten in generious quantities bridge the digestitve tract and get into the body at large and are seen by the immune system as something undesired, setting the immune system to coat them with barrier molecules to keep them under control. The problem with this is that these molecules (potato and some grains) looks an awful lot like some connective tissue in the joints, so the immune response starts to attack the joints as well. I don’t have studies to point to – I read it in a diet/lifestyle book, but I can’t explain the dramatic improvement in my own condition absent the addition of these dietary changes. – Tony Gleshna – Multi-Thousandaire DA LAKES: Da Lake Tube: http://www.greatlakesurfing.com/images/Gallery/point.jpg Da new Lake Movie: http://www.unsalted.tv/ Da Bears ??????? blah – especially the whole coating/attacking thing – blah… that sounds horrible from a scientist point of view… How about something like potatoes and nightshade are in the same family (solanaceae)(1). Nightshade is toxic because of chemicals called solanines(2). So clearly we know that solanines can be in your blood stream and that these chemicals aren’t all that great. Now suppose, some people are more sensitive to solanines. Because these people react poorly to solanines they have mild immune response (similar to the "allergic" reaction). Note, when your body kicks on the immune response, it’s sort of an on or off thing. You either have a higher white count or you don’t. Ever had the aches when you had the flu? That’s part of the immune response. Autoimmune disorders (such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis) occur when the immune system acts to destroy normal body tissues(3). So Tony’s joint aches (due to "normal" inflammation) could be made worse by an immune response as well. And your body could potentially attack healthy tissue while on the attack for the allergens. For Tony, his hip ache was part of a larger immune response to an "allergy". Damn I’m so good at writing this pseudo-science "justification" babble, I should get my own natural health book. (1) http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/solanaceae/ (2) http://www.iowahealth.org/14210.cfm (2) http://health.yahoo.com/health/ency/adam/000821/overview
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Damn I’m so good at writing this pseudo-science "justification" babble, I should get my own natural health book. Bradley No. Rather you’re a kid who talks to hear her head rattle. Bores me to tears both to read folks like you and to bother to reply to the stuff…
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You are walking 2 miles a day and buying new shoes every month? Can I have your old ones. Many folks walk that far just doing housework. If you are having hip problems then you are in serious trouble. Perhaps you are not doing enough exercise to even work out the kinks for the day. Personally, I don’t worry about aches and pains for the first two miles of a run because usually they go away. It sound to me from your post that you don’t understand serious exercise and are a bit of a hypochondriac. I’m getting towards old age, was heavy and am losing weight. Years ago, I was a top ranked tennis player –able to run for hours in the hottest sun on blazing hot courts. That was then and this is now. Now, I amble down the jogging path, walking along my 2 miles at about 2 or 3 miles an hour.
My comments were not meant unkindly, Kirby. I don’t think 50 is near old age. That’s probably because I’m a decade+ older and still average 10 miles per day. Years ago I thought a hip problem would stop me from running because of pain and what seemed like looseness in the joint. It turned out to be more of a muscular, orthopedic problem than a joint problem. Keep working at it. Sometimes there is a simple solution. On the other hand, if you truly do have joing deterioration, perhaps some other non-weight-bearing exercise would make it last longer.
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