It has been quite awhile since I have been on this website. Dont know if this is fate or what, but I was amazed to read the very first post about the hip pain and lower back pain. I was a kidney donor in 2002, and always suffered from the pain in this area. In 2008 they placed a neuro stimulator on my spine, which absently did nothing to help, so they removed the stimulator last December, and in the process made two tears in my dura, which they repaired during surgery, but after I came home I ended up having a CSF leak, and fluid built up to the size of a football on my spine, ended up at Grant Medical Center in Columbus to have it repaired, my removal surgery was in Atlanta, and being back in Ohio causes quite the problem trying to figure out who was going to repair my spinal cord. Insurance won out and it was done in Ohio. I have had the back/hip pain now for 9 years, have severe muscle atrophy in the buttock, lower back, and a very weak left leg. They attempted to do a dorsal rhizatomy to permanently numb the area which failed because of the complications, and have been told there is nothing they can do because of how bad my spine is, only medication, which I totally hate, but have to take now. Nothing worse then being medicated all the time, and still feeling pain.Dont know if you had laproscopic surgery, which I did, but please dont let them ignore the symptoms. I have been told by many neuro surgeons that had Ohio State listened to me and tried to help that maybe it would have been a different outcome, severed nerves can be put back together within the first year. You just have to have someone listen to you, the transplant docs blew me off and said they didnt make mistakes. They severed my motor nerves, and at times the pain is so horrific I dont know how to survive. Sleeping is rare, and sitting is impossible.We all know our body better then any doc, and dont let anyone tell you it is in your head. Fight to get someone to help you.