That radiating pain to the hip/thigh sounds like meralgia paresthetica. Tight belts, tight jeans, wallets in the back pocket can be triggers for this.
I developed mine from a C-section.
This pain is sensory only and involves the lateral femoral sensory nerve. It can become entrapped, and then start firing away!
When Lidoderm patches came out, they were a total Godsend for me. Using them daily in the "right" spot, for 2 weeks, turned the nerve off for me. Now only extreme stretching or heat will activate it, and I consider myself 90% "cured". It is still there, but the terrible pain I had (like 100 beestings) is gone. It started with odd sensations of heat and like hot water running down my leg, and progressed to horrible lightning like strikes of shooting pain. The Lidoderms were simply fabulous for this problem.
Trochanteric bursitis will also give similar symptoms, and that is treated differently.
There is a nice diagram at this website showing the distribution of the nerve involved in MP:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2109.html
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