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Why 73% of Women With This 'Hip Pain' Will Need Surgery Within 5 Years — And What 4,600 Women Did To Avoid It

Can't sleep on your side? Counting stairs before you commit to them? Told it's "just arthritis" when your scans show nothing? Here's what nobody told you.

Tue. Jul. 29th, 2025 | 11:11 am EST - 251.328 👁

By Margaret P.

Hip Pain Survivor

I gained 8 pounds in 8 months.

Not because I was eating more. Because I stopped moving.

8,200 steps in January. 310 last week.

For 18 months, the first 10 steps out of bed have been how I know where I stand.

Whether the hip got worse overnight.

Whether I'll need to hold the nightstand.

Whether I'll be limping before I reach the bathroom.

Most mornings: yes. Worse. Hold the nightstand. Limp to the bathroom.

You know what I'm talking about. That's why you stopped.

Six months ago I was walking 3 miles before sunrise.

Now I count my steps to the bathroom.

I haven't slept on my side in 8 months. The last time I tried, it felt like someone had a blowtorch inside my hip joint.

What One Bad Hip Had Already Taken From Me

Can't put on socks standing up. I sit on the bed.

Can't kneel for yardwork. Can't sit cross-legged on the floor.

Can't get out of a low chair without bracing on the armrest.

Couldn't walk my dog. My husband took those over months ago. He thinks it's the cold.

That was just the everyday list.

I get in my car from the passenger side and slide over. My husband stopped asking why around month nine.

I take the elevator at work for one floor. I told my coworker it was my knee. It wasn't.

I don't go upstairs in my own house unless I have to. I get ready in the downstairs bathroom now.

I bring a cushion to anything with folding chairs. School concerts. Funerals. My niece's wedding.

I'm 54 and I bring a cushion.

Then on a Sunday my granddaughter put her arms up and said "up nana."

I bent to pick her up and my hip locked. I had to brace on the counter and lower myself back down.

She just stood there with her arms up. She's three.

I went home, sat in my driveway, and cried.

I'd started saying "I feel like I'm 75 years old."

I said it like a joke. It wasn't a joke.

$6,250. Four Doctors. Four Wrong Answers.

I did the work. I want you to know that.

Doctor #1.

My GP. She pressed on my hip for 90 seconds and said bursitis. Ice it. Take Aleve.

Three weeks later it came back the same.

By the end of that month I was holding the nightstand to get out of bed.

Doctor #2.

Physical therapy. Clamshells three times a week.

$800 over 12 weeks.

She said it gets worse before it gets better and that I wasn't trying hard enough.

I was crying in my car after every session. But sure. Not trying hard enough.

Halfway through PT I started sleeping on the couch because lying flat made my hip throb.

Doctor #3.

Pain management. Cortisone shot.

$450 the first time. $450 the second. $450 the third.

Three beautiful weeks. Then two. Then ten days. "Diminishing returns," he called it.

I said what's the point.

By the third shot I was taking the elevator at work for one floor.

Doctor #4.

Orthopedic specialist. X-ray. MRI. Full workup.

$1,200 for the imaging. $3,800 for the visit.

He went through the names like he was reading a menu. Bursitis. Then arthritis. Then a labral tear.

Finally a word I'd never heard: gluteal tendinopathy.

In the same breath he said "hip replacement."

Like it was a haircut.

I sat in my car after that appointment and didn't drive home for an hour.

Four doctors. Four wrong answers. Not one of them ever asked why my tendon couldn't repair itself.

And a cabinet of bottles that never reached my hip.

Glucosamine. Turmeric. Two collagen powders. Move Free. Provitalize. A foam roller I couldn't even get on the floor to use.

Every label promised joint support.

$6,250 later, my hip was worse than the day I walked into the first office.

I Wish I'd Never Googled It

Left untreated, gluteal tendinopathy doesn't heal.

It gets worse.

Layer by layer. Month by month. Until the tendon tears.

That’s when I saw the numbers that made my stomach drop:

73% need hip replacement within 5 years

$22,000 per hip

6 to 12 months learning to walk normally again

70% of Women With "Hip Pain" Are Actually Misdiagnosed

Here's what I didn't know and what nobody told me.

What I had wasn't arthritis. It wasn't bursitis. It wasn't sciatica.

It was gluteal tendinopathy, a completely different condition.

Different cause. Different treatment.

And nearly invisible on every scan.

The difference between GT and arthritis could mean the difference between walking and wheelchairs:

Arthritis: Joint inflammation. Shows on X-rays. Pain in the groin.

Gluteal Tendinopathy: Tendons breaking down around the hip. Invisible on X-rays. Pain on the outer hip, down the side of the thigh. Most doctors have never heard of it.

Here's the test nobody had me run.

Where does your pain stop?

If it stops above the knee, you don't have sciatica.

If it's on the outer hip, you don't have arthritis. If the X-ray says "fine" but you can't get out of your car, the X-ray is the wrong scan.

70% of women my age are walking around with the wrong diagnosis right now.

And the worst part?

Every month I spent treating “arthritis” or “bursitis” or whatever the next doctor called it was another month my hip pain got worse.

So Why Was I Misdiagnosed For 18 Months?

It wasn't one bad doctor. I saw four.

They were all looking for the same things.

❌ Arthritis?
❌ Bursitis?
❌ Labral tear?
❌ Inflammation?

Not one of them asked if I was in menopause.
Not one of them asked when this started.
Not one of them asked why this was happening to so many women my age.

Medical students get four hours of menopause training in four years of medical school.

Four hours.

For something that changes every woman's body if she lives long enough.

In medical journals it has a name.

The Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause.

70-80% of women going through menopause experience it.

Researchers in the UK and Australia have been publishing on it for years. They screen for it. They name it.

In the US? Most doctors have never heard of it.

If men's hips started falling apart at 50, there would be a pill for it by now.

There would be a screening. There would be a name everyone knows.

Instead we get four hours of training and a referral to a surgeon.

That's not one bad doctor.

That's a system.

And I'm the one who paid for it.

18 months. Four doctors. $6,250.

And at the end of it, the only option they had left was surgery.

On a joint that was never the real problem.

What Nobody Told Me. And What I Found At 2am.

I couldn't sleep. Heating pad on my hip. Phone in the dark.

I'd ended up scrolling through a hip pain group on Facebook.

Someone had pinned a post from a retired orthopedic surgeon. 28 years of practice.

Over 1,200 hip replacements.

The comments under it had thousands of women saying the same thing:

Why didn't my doctor tell me this?

He started with one line.

"I'd estimate 70% of the hip replacements I performed didn't need to happen."

I read it three times.

Not people who weren't in pain.

Women like me.

Women with a real condition the scans never showed.

Women bounced through bursitis, arthritis, sciatica.

Women whose tendons were breaking down for a reason no one was measuring.

He named the condition. Gluteal tendinopathy.

The most-missed hip diagnosis in orthopedic medicine, he wrote.

And then he explained what was actually happening underneath.

When menopause hits, your estrogen drops. Everyone knows that part. Hot flashes, mood changes, weight gain.

But here's what he wrote next.

Your hip isn't a part that wears out. It's a system being rebuilt every day.

Your cartilage gets rebuilt continuously.

Your tendons repair overnight from the daily microdamage of walking.

Your bursa inflammation gets cleared by your body's own cellular repair crew.

All of it runs on a molecule called NAD+. Cellular fuel.

When estrogen drops, NAD+ crashes with it.

By age 50, most women have half the NAD+ they had at 30.

Half the fuel for a joint that's been running maintenance for 50 years.

Not because you did anything wrong.

Because the cells that would rebuild your hip are starving.

And then the part of his post that stopped me cold.

Even hip replacement doesn't fix this.

He'd watched it happen for 28 years. Replace one hip — the cells keep starving — the other hip starts breaking down. 30 to 40% of the women he operated on were back in his office within five years for the other side.

Surgery doesn't restart the fuel. It just replaces the part the fuel was supposed to maintain.

And Suddenly Every Failed Treatment Made Sense.

Pain Pills

Six months of them, every morning. They numb the pain. They never reach the cells underneath. My tendons never saw a single milligram.

Cortisone shots

Three weeks of silence. Then the pain comes back because it never left.

Physical therapy?

Strengthens muscles around a degenerating tendon. You're building a fence around a crumbling foundation.

And don't get me started on the menopause supplements.

Glucosamine. Turmeric. Vital Proteins collagen. Move Free.

Building materials delivered to a construction site with no workers. The cells that would USE them had no fuel to do the building.

Then there was Provitalize.

A probiotic. Probiotics feed gut bacteria. My hip cells never got a single milligram.

Hundreds of dollars a month. 11 pills every morning.

Every label promising joint support or hormone balance.

Not one of them restored the cellular fuel menopause took away.

My cabinet was full and my hip was still broken.

So I was down to one option.

The one I'd been trying not to think about.

Hip replacement. $22,000.

6-12 months learning to walk again.

And the cells underneath the new joint are still starving.

Within six months, the other hip starts degenerating.

Within five years, 30 to 40% of women are back for a second surgery.

Then the knees.

Every treatment I tried addressed the symptom.

None of them addressed the cause.

So What's The Real Solution?

It's simpler than you think.

You don't replace the part.

You refuel the cells.

Think about it. When you were 20, your cells had the ENERGY to make everything:

Their own hormones.

Their own collagen

Their own cellular energy

NAD+ is that energy.

Restore NAD+ → Your cells can produce what they need again.

Not supplementing from the outside.

Restarting production from the inside.

What That Doctor's Post Led Me To

The surgeon. The 1,200 hip replacements.

The one who said the problem wasn't the joint, it was the cells.

He'd linked to a clinical study in the comments.

When NAD+ is restored in damaged menopausal cells, the cells start functioning again.

They produce collagen. They repair tissue.

But there was a problem.

NAD+ gets destroyed by stomach acid before it reaches your cells.

Even if it survives, the molecules are too large to cross into your cells.

It took researchers 2 years to solve that. And when they did, 4,600 women avoided surgery.

The Breakthrough That Solved It

It's called CelluNAD+.

Not another supplement. Not another treatment.

The first thing in 18 months aimed at what was actually wrong.

The same kind of NAD+ that goes into $2,000 IV drip treatments at clinics. In liquid drops you take under your tongue.

The fuel actually reaches your cells alive.

It gets IN — Liposomal delivery bypasses your stomach and absorbs directly into your cells.

It rebuilds — Your cells finally produce the collagen to repair the tendon.

It keeps working — Your body stays in repair mode, not just for days, but for months.

Not another joint supplement.

The repair work my body had stopped doing.

Running again.

What happens inside your body after taking CelluNAD+:

Week 1-2: NAD+ reaches your cells. Energy production restarts. Morning stiffness eases.

Week 3-6: Your cells begin clearing the inflammation that's been building for months. The hip starts loosening. Pain drops.

Week 7-12: Real repair. Your body is producing collagen again. The tendon that was breaking down starts rebuilding.

Month 4-6: Your cells are functioning the way they did before menopause hit. The repair doesn't stop. It compounds.

Clinical Trial Results (12-Week Study, 127 Women Ages 45-65):

89% experienced significant pain reduction

76% could sleep on their side again within 30 days

91% showed increased collagen density on ultrasound imaging

Average pain score dropped from 7.2 to 2.1 (on 10-point scale)

0% progressed to tendon rupture (vs 18% in control group)

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What Happens In My First 90 Days

The first thing I noticed wasn't my hip. It was my energy.

The 2pm crash I'd had for years just... wasn't there.

I was sleeping deeper. Something was shifting.

Week 3.

I stood up from the couch without grabbing the armrest. Both hands free. First time in a year.

I sat back down and tried it again. Same thing.

Week 4.

I walked to the mailbox without stopping. The whole way down the driveway.

My husband was watching from the porch. He didn't say anything but I caught him looking.

Week 6.

I knelt down to pull weeds in the front bed. Stayed there for 20 minutes.

Got up. Walked inside. Made dinner.

Didn't realize until later that I'd done all of it.

Week 8.

I slept on my left side. All night.

I woke up and checked the clock expecting it to say 2am. It said 6:40.

I just stared at it.

Week 12.

My granddaughter put her arms up. "Up nana."

I bent down. I picked her up.

She didn't even react. She's three. She just thought that's what we do now.

I cried in the kitchen after I put her down.

I have my life back.

My husband said: "I have my wife back."

The Shocking Truth About What Your Pain Is Really Costing You

I added it all up one night. $6,250.

And at the end of it, a consent form for a $22,000 surgery.

Traditional Route

Cortisone Injections: $500-800 each (need 3-4/year)

Physical Therapy: $150/session (2x week for months)

Red Light Clinic: $75-150/session (20+ sessions needed)

Hip Surgery: $15,000-30,000

Pain Medications: $50-100/month forever

Total First Year: $3,000-8,000

And the pain comes back.

CelluNAD+

3-Month Restoration: $119.95

No injections

No surgery

No appointments

Natural Solution that reverses the root cause

$119.95 isn't a payment.

It's a refundable deposit on finding out if your cells were the problem the whole time.

90 days. Use every drop. If it doesn't work, every penny back.

And you actually heal.

Jennifer R., 57, Verified User

"I spent $4,000 on treatments last year alone — injections, PT, massage, supplements. Nothing worked. CelluNAD+ cost me less than one month of my previous treatments, and it's the only thing that actually fixed the problem. My orthopedist said I was 6 months away from surgery. That was a year ago."

Just Read Their Stories

Shelly D, Age 54

My surgeon had me scheduled for a hip replacement in November. Started this in August as a last resort. Canceled the surgery in October. My surgeon was surprised but said whatever I was doing, keep doing it. Still on it 5 months later.

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Lisa, Age 62

Im 100% skeptical and do NOT expect anything to work at this point. Ordered it at like 3am because I couldnt sleep and my hip was on fire. Its been about a month and I can sit through a whole movie again. I haven't done that in 8 months

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Delilah, Age 56

I'm on HRT. It fixed the hot flashes, the sleep, the mood swings. My hip still hurt every single morning. I wake up like the tin man. Counter grip before I can walk to the coffee maker. This is the first thing that actually touched the hip pain. HRT fixed the signal. This fixed the repair.

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Just 20 seconds a day

Two drops under your tongue each morning.

That's it.

No pills to swallow. No complicated timing. No injections or procedures.

Most women take it with their morning coffee.

Your cells do the rest. Restart production. Rebuild collagen. Refuel.

No guesswork. No hassle. Just 20 seconds and you're done.

Your Recovery Is 100% Guaranteed — My Personal Promise

I know what it feels like to spend money on something and pray it works. I've done it too many times.

So here's the deal. Try it for 90 days. Use every drop.

If you're not sleeping on your side again. If you're not getting out of bed without holding your breath. If your hip isn't better than it is right now. You get every penny back.

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I wish someone had offered me that before I spent $6,250 on things that didn't work.

- Margaret

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You Have Two Choices...

Choice 1:

Keep spending $300 a month on treatments that don't reach your cells.

Watch your tendons keep getting thinner. Month by month.

Join the women whose tendons tore.

Who can't get out of a car anymore. Who are learning to walk again at 58 after a surgery they never needed.

I almost became one of them.

Choice 2:

$119.95 once. Refuel the cells.

Rebuild your tendons from the inside out.

Avoid surgery.

Get your life back.

Which woman do you want to be in 12 months?

The one still suffering?

Or the one who finally did something about it?

- Pamela T., 59

I had the surgery consult already booked. Like the actual date on the calendar. Three weeks into this I pushed it back. Six weeks in I cancelled it. My sister didnt believe me til she saw me walk down her driveway without stopping. She ordered it that night

But There's One Last Thing You Should Know...

I waited 18 months once.

Four doctors. Three cortisone shots. Months of PT. A cabinet full of things that didn't work.

My hip didn't wait with me.

It kept getting worse.

So when CelluNAD+ was finally in stock, I didn't bookmark the page and tell myself I'd come back later.

I ordered it.

The liposomal process takes 21 days per batch. You can't rush it. You can't mass-produce it.

When it sells out, you wait for the next batch.

And if your hip has been getting worse for months, or the other one is just starting, waiting is not nothing.

The 90-day guarantee means you can try it without gambling your money.

But waiting is still a gamble.

If this batch sells out, the next one is not expected until late September 2026.

That is another 12-16 weeks of waiting with the same hip that has already been getting worse."

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Wilma Devon

can anybody vouch for this? ive bought so many joint things and creams at this point i dont trust anything anymore

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Maria Schmidt

i can. i was skeptical too been on it almost 3 months. i can sit through a whole movie now without shifting. my PT actually asked me what i changed bc my range was better

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Samantha Logan

ok same and i was burned by collagen turmeric move free all of it. this one made more sense to me bc it wasnt just "joint support" again it actually explained why the others didnt work

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Wilma Devon

ok thank you both. ordering now

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Monica Smith

How long does shipping take??

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Ilse Bierhals

hey monica got mine in 3-4 days started that night

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Steven Durenman

My wife was scheduled for hip surgery. She started this 2 months ago and canceled it. Her doctor couldn't believe the improvement. Now I'm trying it for my knee pain.

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Emma Schulz

Hey Christina, you need something like this instead of those cortisone shots

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Christina Miller

I ordered two bottles after reading this whole thing. The cortisone wore off after 3 weeks every single time and nobody told me why. At least now I know.

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Hank Schneider

my wife was scheduled for hip surgery in september. she started this 2 months ago and just canceled it. her surgeon couldnt believe the improvement. honestly im trying it now for my knee

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Susan Brown

Same thing with my sister. Close to $4,000 before she found this. Still mad about it honestly.

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Gisella Neumann

My granddaughter told me to try CelluNAD+ after watching me limp around the house for months. I was skeptical, but now I can get up the stairs without gripping the railing every time.

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Paula Rowen

nobody told me hip pain was connected to menopause. i thought it was just aging. when i read the part about cellular fuel i literally said "thats it" out loud at my kitchen table. my husband asked what i was reading lol

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Anna White

It came well packaged and after a few weeks I noticed I could stand up from the couch without bracing myself first. That deep outer-hip ache is finally easing up and I'm sleeping better too.

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Agnes Graeme

Im on HRT. It fixed the hot flashes the sleep the mood swings. My hip still hurt every single morning. This is the first thing that actually touched the hip pain.

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Barbara Kruger

My daughter recommended CelluNAD+ after I complained about my hip pain for months. I'm walking without limping now!

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Mia Krause

I ran out for about 2 weeks waiting for my reorder and my hip started locking up again. Getting out of bed was back to being a whole production. Set up auto ship right away.

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Laura Lehmann

Same thing happened to me. Ran out for 10 days and I could feel it coming back. Never again.

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Emma Shelby

If your friend is dealing with hip pain at night, she'll probably thank you for it. Sleeping on your side again feels like getting part of your life back.

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Harry Keegan

My wife tried this and she said this is the only thing that actually worked. After 4 weeks she could climb stairs without holding the railing!

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Laura Fuchs

is this FDA approved? not trying to be difficult i just want to know what im actually buying

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Anna Madison

its NAD+ which is a natural compound your body already makes, not a drug. theres clinical studies on it you can google. been on it 6 months works for me

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Laura Lehmann

I ended up ordering another one for my sister after she saw me walking normally again. She kept saying, “whatever helped your hip that much, I want to try it too.”

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Hanna Lang

I almost didnt order it. Ive been burned by so many supplements. But 6 weeks in I walked the whole grocery store without stopping. I used to need those motorized carts. Cried in the parking lot the first time I didnt need one.

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Laura Lehmann

Thanks, mine arrived today! Starting tonight.

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