Dr. Betty Murray had hip pain during menopause that felt like pinching when squatting. It turned out to be hip impingement, not osteoarthritis. Rest and physiotherapy fixed it quickly, showing that menopausal joint pain doesn't automatically mean arthritis or surgery.
One question somebody asked me before about osteoarthritis was, what does it feel like? In menopause, we say, oh, I have joint pain, I have frozen shoulder. And so you go, oh my God, do I have osteoarthritis? I'm gonna have a hip replacement. No, no, that's not always the case. So for me, it started out with a hip impingement. That feels like a pinching of the hip. And so it's almost like every time you squat, you feel a little pinch. And that's how it started. And again, of course, I ignore it. Like, I don't know, that you label it to aging because I wasn't studying gerontology back then, or you label it to, oh, maybe I was just a little overactive and I need to rest. And you rest and it can, it can get better. And I did some physiotherapy and actually that worked really well. I was bounced back on my feet after a couple of weeks of physiotherapy. I, because I, I was gotten to the point where it kind of comes and goes. There's some people who have, at least for me it was, Ooh, I'm feeling severe pinching and now I gotta slow down. I gotta stop, go see a physio, and then I just get myself sorted and then kind of be back to the races with my exercise.
