Hi all,
Happy Mother’s Day to those spending special time with their families today.
I am having rads planning this week with the intention of having rads to my neck and pelvic mets.
I am coping resaonably with the pelvic mets using tramadol.
However, the mets in my neck, at C7 vertebrae, are pushing on the nerve and I am in a lot of pain from my neck down to my fingers on the left side. The tramadol isn’t really helping. I am getting a little reduction in pain from naproxen, an anti-inflammatory. Also, doing IV bisphosponate every 3 weeks.
Has anyone else had this kind of pain? Did the radiotherapy help?
I will be starting taxol on Thurs and was wondering if the chemo helps.
All feedback and suggestions for treatment will be very welcome.
Cherry x
Yes I have had it twice for different areas and had great results x
I have found radiotherapy to be very effective in getting rid of pain.
At the time I was diagnosed with secondary bone mets (Oct 2012), I was having extreme pain in my neck and had a very painful right hip which was making walking difficult. Radiotherapy treatment took away these pains more or less straight away.
A couple of months later my left hip started to give me pains which were very similar to the previous pain in the right hip. I had one blast of radiotherapy on that side too. Initially it did not seem to have an effect and a few weeks went by. Then overnight the pain had gone!
I am happy to say that none of these pains has returned as yet and I do not have to take any painkillers at present.
So this treatment can be very effective at least for some peope but the impact may not be immediate.
Hope this helps
Moonbeam3