Excrutiating, squeezing nerve pain in right leg/hip when standing up

[Lolala78]

Hi. I've had an issue with my right hip/upper thigh for approx 2 months. Most days it's fine, but every two to three days and only after prolonged periods of sitting down, I get excruciating squeezing pain in my right upper thigh. It feels as if a nerve inside my hip is being compressed severely, with my toes getting pins and needles. It feels similar to sciatic pain (which I had problems with on the same side in the past), but it's not at the back of the leg but the front, and much more severe. It subsides spontaneously after five to ten minutes and eventually I'm able to walk and move normally then. Sometimes I get also a dull pressure-like aching on the outside of my right calf or ankle, which is continuous for a while. The pain in my hip/thigh tho is extremely severe when I get one of these attacks, it has left me crying in middle of restaurants. I also noticed that it sometimes hurts the same way when I'm passing urine.

I've had an MRI lumbar spine which showed no nerve root compression but moderately severe facet joint degenerative change with hypertrophy causing mild canal stenosis and moderate bilateral exit foraminal stenosis.

My doctor wants to send me for orthopedic surgeons opinion and physio, as he said this occasional, severe pain would be caused by the degenerative changes in my lumbar spine. I have more the impression it is an intermittently nerve entrapment, maybe the common peroneal nerve - but I've no footdrop and can't find any info if this can happen only intermittently and acute?

I'm 38 years old and female. Please help...