repeatedly misdiagnosed hip pain with a happy ending

I've love it if someone here repeated my experience.  

I've had severe pain in, I would say, my hips for about two years.  I couldn't walk more than a quarter of a mile, and while in England this spring I acquired a cane to lean on.  I was living in East Oxford and going into my college in central-north Oxford.  There's about a quarter of a mile gap between where one bus leaves one off and then the northward picks one up.  With one thing and another, I was walking a very painful mile a day when it was all added up.  At least at the beginning.

I'd often had some discomfort, but when it started getting bad I went to a highly recommended surgeon in Houston, who ordered large amounts of scanning.  The result:  arthritis but not bad enough for replacements.  

Over the last year it's seemed to have gotten worse, and starting femara may have made it still worse.  So I was thinking I was close to immobilized and would have to get replacements.  

But, while I was in England, I decided that since I had extra time living alone, I'd look out for some yoga or pilates.  I don't believe in most new age therapies, for the record, but have liked my experiences with these two.  I tried a few places and ended up seeing a yoga therapist at Eau de Vie, on the Cowley Rd, Oxford.  The biggest result is that she pointed out that where I was having pain was really the ileic (sp?) amd it was pretty clearly muscle pain from my sitting at a desk for nearly 50 years.  So she gave me some exercises, and the pain is increadibly reduced and nearly gone.  After all the pain I've had, I found I was very frightened about walking, but I've managed nearly a straight mile pretty easily.  

I also had back pain which the doctor said was in part due to my landing smack on my tailbone about two years ago in a kitchen accident.  Again, the yoga therapist gave me some exercises and it is nearly gone.  There is a non-trivial theory behind particularly the back exercises, about the importance of the facia (I think it is).  I was very surprised that simple movements and breathing could have such an effect

I still probably will need a knee replacement soon, but comparatively speaking, I'm feeling great.

By the way, the therapist's name is Anita.  She's recommended that I find someone who does cranial-sacral therapy here in Houston.   I'm really not advertising for Anita; I'm just very grateful.