I am a sixteen year old, generally healthy girl. I am very skinny (I eat a lot, though) and physically active when I can be. All of my joints are extremely flexible; I have hypermobility. I am exhibiting all of the signs for Ehler's Danlos Syndrome but I have not been tested yet. I have had ongoing hip problems for about four years now. It all started with a simple popping in my hip. It was a loud and audible pop, which I sometimes describe as sounding metal-ish, if that makes sense. As I went through puberty and my hips began to turn outward, the popping got worse. I could literally feel something inside my hip shifting around. Eventually it went away. That was in my left hip. Consequently, after the left hip stopped bothering me, the right one started to act up and do the same thing. We saw a general orthopedist and I was put in physical therapy. The that we went to wasn't every knowledgable and the therapy did nothing. So when the pain in the right hip dissipated, we stopped therapy. On and off for a few years, each hip has been popping and snapping. It got a lot worse in the left hip around this time last year. We saw a local hip specialist and he found that my labrum was torn. Therefore, he wanted to perform arthroscopic surgery to fix it. However, we wanted a second opinion because he was going to treat the symptom (the tear) and not what was actually causing the tear. So we found Dr. Bryan T. Kelly at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He found that both of my hips are rotated inward - the left one at 33 degrees and the right one at 31 degrees. This is very bad. It is what has been causing all of my hip troubles...so we thought. Dr. Kelly had a phenomenal doctor from Colorado come visit us at his office in the city. His name is Dr. Ernie Sink. He is the nicest, most knowledgable doctor I have met in my ENTIRE LIFE. On July 21, 2010, both doctors performed a derotational osteotomy, arthrotomy, and osteoplasty on my left hip, which entailed leaving a metal rod (about 8 inches long) and 7 screws inside my hip for at least 6 months. The surgery went well, and most of my pain was gone. I was so happy that my hip wasn't popping. And then it came back. I was so pissed. And the metal was starting to hurt me because I was so skinny. So on February 2, 2011, they removed the metal hardware and performed an iliopsoas release to try to relieve the snapping. It has been about 7 weeks since that surgery. Afterwards, I was thrilled because the popping was gone! It was amazing! I was so enthralled because it worked! But...uh oh. It started popping again about 3 weeks ago. And its not the same kind of popping. It's still deep within the joint, but it is a much harder and less audible pop. It hurts sooo much. Not even joking, its the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. And I am getting extremely frustrated because it seems like no one can fix me. My eyes are literally tearing up as I'm typing this. I have fallen into such a bad state of depression. It's absolutely horrible. I have tried cortisone shots, ultrasounds, fluoroscopies, everything. All the meds. You name it. I feel like if I keep telling my doctors that I'm not fixed, they'll think I'm a burden. I feel like I'm being a burden. I just want to live a normal life. I have been through so much already and I'm only sixteen. Life just isn't fair. If anyone has been through this or knows anything about this that would possibly help, please comment. I am desperate. I need my life back