Melissa,

A patient can relate anything they want to a condition they have or a disease they have, but that doesn't mean that's why they have it. If a patient starts talking about a toothache causing toe pain, well.....you can see how that may look to the doctor.

In order to have a reliable patient relationship with your doctor just go to see them, say you have hip pain and let them decide where and how it came along. Let them know when it started and how, if doing something makes it worse. That helps a lot in diagnosing a medical problem. Most of the time if it is something simple, an steroid injection helps, or an anti inflammatory type med helps along with some PT. If it is something like a slipped disc or any type of disc issues in the back that's more of a serious condition.

That can also cause a limp and pain in the hip area. Docs can see that on an X-ray and MRI.

But relating everything one has to something like TOS can cause a person to not look further at another possible cause of a pain or whatever when it has nothing to do with TOS.

Ask your doc, they are the ones that can let you know what it's from. We can't. Hope you find some answers, take it from me, hip pain is no fun but with the correct DX you can find relief.