My hip hurts from doing the elliptical! Am I alone?

Go to the doctor. There are all sorts of things this could be, so I am not going to presume, but I will tell you that I have chronic hip bursitis. I am extraordinarily wide across my hips with a small waist, so instead of having legs that are angled like this II, my legs are more like this ^.

If I do the wrong sort of exercise (or even the right sort) and don't baby my hips, I get bursitis - the bursa sac in my hips, where my femur fits into the socket of my hips, takes too much pounding at a bad angle for its design, and the bursa sac inflames.

The fastest way I've found to reduce this inflammation is to go to the doctor and get a steroid shot directly into that joint. (By the way this hurts like a badword badword reallybadword, but then I'm fine in about a day in a half.) The second fastest way is to get a steroid shot in the fleshy part of my hip. The third fastest way is to take oral steroids. The slowest way for me to clear up a case of hip bursitis is to take Aleve and sit on ice packs all day. (I do this to keep my bursitis at bay, actually.)

Interestingly enough, when I have good, strong muscles in my hips, I don't have as many problems with bursitis. But to get those good muscles in my hips, I have to be awfully careful and I have episodes of really owie bursitis from the exercise needed to get those good muscles. Go figure.

It just hurts in my hips, not my butt exactly, but deep in the socket of my hips when I have hip bursitis at first. When it gets really bad, the pain travels to my knees because the nerves are pinched.

Anywho. Go to the doctor. You may have something totally different.

It's an extremely repetitive motion, so I'm guessing that is playing a role too.

I just went to the doctor with a similar problem. She said she thinks I have bursitis.

Have me a steroid shot and a time release anti inflammatory. Told me to keep doing yoga and weights, but to avoid cardio with repetitive motion on the joint for awhile (which is pretty much all cardio right?). She recommended swimming, which I would love to do, but don't have access to a pool.

Sucks. I guess I'll do the recumbent bike for awhile. It's the best option I can think of.