I've spent a lot of my career around medicinal chemistry and biomarkers.
I do experience considerable hip pain, though I know, that if I had the time, there are physical therapy exercises that happily work for me. Somehow I don't make the time.
I am in no position, despite my training, to make medication recommendations or to give medical advice, but, assuming bleeding is not an issue, I cannot recommend good old aspirin enough. I've been managing my pain with it for years, and although my pain is surely less severe than yours, the more I learn about this simple and old drug, the more I love it. Sometimes, as they say, we miss the trees for the forest. I have participated in the measurement of inflammatory biomarkers in the arachidonic acid/prostaglandin cascade and so, I totally understand why and how it works for me. I've seen on a molecular level what aspirin does.
But again...I'm no doctor, but it's simple if you haven't tried it.
In any case, despite your difficulties, you should take some measure of relief in being the fine artist you are. I think most of us here greatly appreciate your magnificent work and your wonderful stories. I especially enjoyed - although appreciating the danger you were in - the tale about the propane/carbon monoxide event, which was beautifully told. I was riveted.
You are a fine writer, and an excellent visual artist, and I, and I'm sure everyone, wish you a speedy and successful recovery because we greatly appreciate what you bring to DU and surely to the world beyond it.
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