Question: I am 56 years old Female. Scoliosis and fusion from T 4 to L 1 and disc at L2 is gone, bone on bone. Curve in lower back is now twisting. I'm having, besides normal back pain, excruciating pain in my front right hip. Most of the time I can't get up without pain, it feels like nerve pain. I've been to hip docs and gp docs and everyone thinks its from my back. By the way I have 4 bulging discs in my lower spine. I'm desperate for help because it's affecting my life so badly. I hurt bad. It feels like a long knitting needle is being shoved up my front of hip near the groin.

Thank you.
I have another question, is this common in adults with scoliosis?
The doc I see is the son of the doc who actually did my fusion with Harrington rod back in 1986.

He says I need surgery up on L2 because of bone on bone. He hasn't really addressed my lower back pain, because he wanted to make sure it wasn't my hip.

I wish I could send you a picture of my xray of my spine. It's a mess. I do have some arthritis up in the area of L2. Down lower I have some issues I guess due to the twisting of my lower spine. The 4 bulging discs are in lower lumbar area.
Right where you can see how its twisting.

I'm scared because I can no longer turn to my right. An orthopedic doc I saw about a year ago told me there was nothing he could do for me and that my window of activity would shrink and shrink until I ended up in a wheel chair.

Also I refuse to take pain meds because the constipate me horribly. I use Bayer back and body, and I guess it helps that I am tough and have a high tolerance for pain. I had 5 babies, all natural births.

Thank you so much for giving me some answers.
I'm having a bad day with pain today. It's that pain in my hip/groin. Getting up from sitting is the worst. It takes me a while to put my right foot down. It is excruciating pain. I try to walk. OMG. I can't believe this pain.

Sometimes too I feel like somebody clobbered me in the middle of my back. When I have a busy day my lower back hurts so bad I try to lay down for a while.

I had 3 kids before the rod, and 2 after the rod. For years I tried to keep busy and stay ahead of pain. Now I'm done with kids and on to grandbabies. It seems like I sit more because I guess pain has caught up with me. My older age too, has made my spine start to twist. You can see this on an x-ray. Sometimes I feel like I will end up a cartoon guy, my body facing one way but walking the other way.

None of my kids has scoliosis and so far neither do the grandbabies. Thank God.

The bone on bone in L2
Its because its just below the fusion, for years taking the brunt of all the upper fusion, I rotate there. No disc, its gone. Yes arthritis there. No I do not have rheumatoid. I have some osteo. In my lower back, well, I'm hoping to have that addressed when I see the doc in XXXXXXX

You have provided me with some good information to kinda put me at ease. I just want to enjoy my grandbabies and just have one single day without pain. Just one. And actually I would take a half of a day at this point. Thanks.