The Old Lady Hip

I have the hip of an old lady. About 2 times a week my hip will absolutely kill. And it rotates, both hips. This has been going on since I was about 10. Then it was about once a month. So I went to the orthopedic doctor, and about 6 x rays, an MRI, and over $1000 latter we find not too much out. Apparently, I have just pretty bad hips and probably partially because of my accident they're worse than most people my age and worse than they'd like to see, but not bad enough that I'll be having surgery or anything. Which is kind of a bummer cuz I'd like to not limp around every so often. And at the Dr they ask you to rate you're pain on a scale of 1-10, and you think its pretty bad, but what about the people who break their femur? Or have to cut their own arm off because it gets trapped under a rock when you're hiking. And nothings broken, but HELLO, you're limping and this goes on week after week. You know when one area hurts but it makes your whole appendage ache? My hip will hurt so much that my whole dang leg will ache sometimes. I just take Advil, and that helps, so I think I'll just keep that up for a few more years and then go back to the Dr. so they can say "Oh, well, if you have caught this a couple years ago, it would be real cheap and real easy to fix, but you didn't, so you need your entire hip replaced." Then I'll make this Dr. pay for the surgery and be my nurse for a while. Actually, if you can't tell I love to exaggerate. She's having me to physical therapy to see what that does.