My father's hip and lower back pain not diagnosised?

My father's hip and lower back pain not diagnosised?Hi I don't know where to go about this. My father was admited into the ER last Saturday complaining about lower back and hip pain. He has had a history of Staph infections so his general practice doctor didn't want to risk another infection.

While in ER they took Xrays and did a MRI on his hips and lower back but found nothing.

My father insists that he is suffering more pain than he ever had before and has not been able to get to his feet by himself because he is in pain and doesn't have the strength to do so.

Without finding any reason for the pain the doctor wants my father to under go physical therapy. My mother and I both feel there has to be something wrong or why is he in such pain?

We also don't feel the current doctor is doing much to help my father. When we fist met her she complained of being too overwhelmed with new patients and didn't have time to look at my dad's chart or xrays.

My dad is in the hospital right now and I am trying to get him with another doctor but we don't know what to do. I think they are giving him a CAT scan soon.

I'm reaching out to the Yahoo community looking for advice. Does anyone here have any suggestions as to what we should do? The doctor is giving my dad morphine since he hurts so much but other than that they don't seem to know what to do. I know the best people to talk to is a doctor but this doctor doesn't seem to know what to do. I am hoping to change him to a new doctor but in the mean time does anyone have any suggestions on what tests I can suggest the doctor try?

Maybe we should try and get a second opinion? If so how do you do this? Admit him to a new hospital?

Any advice?

Thanks!

sesme
your father's situation seems very similar to mine... i have had right hip and low back pain for some time now, plus pain in the bottom of my foot. i am going to have an mri soon and am currently in physical therapy, which i feel is helping. so try the physical therapy and yes, get a second opinion or even a third. you have the right to ask for additional/new doctors to review your dad's tests and to talk with him about the pain. if his doctor admits she's overwhelmed, then perhaps she is not the right doctor for him. i have to take pain medication, as well, and it does help, but it never makes the pain go away. the stretching and strengthening exercises, plus the massage of physical therapy has been helping me, though. so please, encourage your dad to try that. and get that second opinion, too--perhaps an orthopedist or neurosurgeon can tell what is going on. good luck to you and your father!

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