femoral stress fractures

I had pain for several weeks just above my knee. I never got to the point where I couldn't run, but running was very unplesant. At that point I saw the doc and got a bone scan. On his advice, I did not run for about 8 months.

i am healing one right now. When I first got it I thought something was wrong with my hip. I thought my hip flexor was injured. All the icing, advil (actually slows bone repair), and stretching did nothing. I already couldn't keep up in workouts because my running form was so bad because I was limping. After a while I got bad enough that I couldn't keep up on regular runs either. It wasn't the pain that made me get it checked out, it was that I couldn't keep up with the team because of my limp. I guess runners are just tough like that. From initial notice to the point where I stopped was a solid month and a half I'd say. Now I can't run until january. The pool and I have gotten to know each other reeeeal good.

Pain behind the knee. It felt like my knee was giving out every so often. Pain was also in my thigh as if it was a quad problem. There came a time when I couldn't run at all and that's when I was diagnosed. I then had to take 18 weeks off for it to heal. And every so often it still hurts when I put pressure on it the wrong way, and that was almost 8 years ago.

My femoral stress fracture was a gradual pain that at first was thought to be a strained groin. At first it would \"warm up\" and go away during the initial part of the run, but after a few weeks, it just hurt like the devil while running. It was a very deep, kind of difuse pain. The kicker was that sitting in class was terrible- my leg and hip throbbed and I was unable to sit still for more than about a half hour before becoming very uncomfortable. the pain then spread down from my groin to the upper thigh....within a week I went from uncomfortable to run to absolutely unable to run from the pain. Turns out after a series of x-rays and bonescans, my strained groin was a nearly complete fracture of the femoral neck. A few months on crutches and about a 3month recovery plan was all it took to heal :)

if you are thinking about running on it, stop right now..it's not going to heal fast anyway, and the longer you wait to stop running the longer you'll wait to start running again

mine hurt like hell to walk on and especially go up stairs, let alone running on it, four months on the bike/pool and it was all good

If it is a stress fracture , then get a bone growth stimulator. A little device that is usually covered through health insurance. It will heal it so much faster.

Mine was in the neck of the femur. At first, we thought it was a hip flexor problem. It gradually got worse, and it started moving down the leg so it hurt just above the knee along the front of the leg. It didn't hurt in races, but on regular days, it hurt gradually more and more. I got x-rays, a bone scan, and an MRI before being diagnosed. After taking 3 months completely off running, I started running again and ran for 3 months, but I wasn't careful enough and it re-injured. So now I'm almost done with another 3 months off. so be very careful when you come back to running! you don't want that to happen to you.