Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

Since the PT made it worse, my guess is that there a tear at an attachment point and the diagnosis is incorrect. One thing you can try while waiting is taking 600mg ibuprofen every 6 hours for a few days. No harm in it. After you quit if the pain is much, much less and doesn't come roaring back, perhaps the tendonitis diagnosis is correct. It's interesting the stretches help, though. It's also interesting that I don't see any tendons involved with the gluteus medius. Pain in the hip could be a lot of things - it's a large area. Can you walk? If you walk, where does it hurt, or does it not hurt? Some reading:
https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/...-bursitis.aspx
https://www.americanhipinstitute.org...dius-tear.html