In the spring of 2021, I noticed a new ache in my left hip. Being of a certain age, I didn’t think much of it and chalked it up to simply growing, ahem, older. I was 50. At my next physical I brought it up to my doctor who dismissed it and suggested yoga.
So I took up yoga, but the pain was getting worse. I went back to the doctor who then suggested I lose ten pounds. OK, done. Pain still there and worsening. I decided to visit a chiropractor, a young slim man who tugged and turned and cracked my entire body. I visited him weekly for three months. Still, no relief from the pain. From the little information I found online, I pieced together a self-diagnosis or perimenopause-related aches and pains. Growing old it is.
