Can someone describe hip arthritis?

Gran - It could be arthritis.  I've got DJD in my spine and neck, but it's more often my hips that do me in when I've been sitting these days.  I think it's from the AIs., as I don't think I have any arthritis in my hips either, although I was dxed with bursitis in left hips years ago and that's the one that bothers me the most.  I feel like Grandpa McCoy or Festus when I get up from the sofa!!  I certainly don't know if it's mets, but I bet it isn't.

Susan

I took an 8-session course on arthritis at my local hospital. I was on a cane at that point! I learned that "motion is lotion". As long as you keep moving, you get the right fluids to the joint. That's why you're so sore when you get up.  I take a lot of meds for my arthritis and pain, but it's the only way I can function. I also have Fibromyalgia, so my plate is pretty full.

Bluewillow - I am with you - lets hit a beach somewhere and bake it out.  BTW is that your grandchild in your avatar because he is a cutie-putootie.  I know what you mean about 'older' folks.  We have a family friend that, like your Mom, is tiny, 82 and runs around like the Energizer Bunny.  Meantime, I am 20 years younger and can't get my back straight for several minutes after sitting for any time

My stenosis was diagnosed via an MRI.  I had no idea.  I get a new pain and keep on going.  I have an aunt who sees a doctor for every little twinge.  I mark them all up to getting old.  The reason I had the MRI is because I could barely move my neck and was having backaches.

When they did the bone scan after BC diagnosis it light up like a Christmas tree for arthritis.

Barbe - Poor thing, you have really been through the wringer.  I know there are days that you have, like me, that questions God with "how many more tests do I have to pass to learn whatever it is you want me to learn."  My prayers are with  you to continue to give you strength.  God Bless.

All of you.....me included never cease to crack me up !!!! This is why we will all grow old together....creaky and cracky and crotchety but old.....and laughing between every moan and groan.

Im thinking willow....that your pain does sound more like arthritis or something in that family....my understanding is the dreaded pain of mets doesnt go away.....and what barbe said about motion and lotion is SO true.....my post treatment showed some areas of arthritis in both knees and my lower spine but so long as I trudge onward every day it really doesnt bother me at all.....now, sometimes at the end of my shift it cries out vehemently.....how bout checking into one of the NSAIDS with your doc I have a prescription for Nabumetone which I can take twice a day and I only do it for a week or two when things are really bothersome, the minute I get it in my system I can tell cause the pain is hard to find. I actually used to work in my Crocs.....very much turned out to be NOT a good thing for the feet......

We are delightfully pathetic.......

*waves and big hugs* to my gas girl........

Love you all.....

jan

Just wondering if there are any studies that show a correlation between chemotherapy drugs (adriamycin, cytoxin, tamoxiphen etc)  and an earlier onset of arthritis.   At age 55, I have developed arthritis in knees and hip, and fingers, and no one else among my relatives, ever had arthritis so young (or breast cancer).  I had breast cancer 5 years ago.    I have always been active and on a healthy diet.

Thanks Bluewillow and if I find out anything more about this, I'll post again.  

Lucy

i'm not sure about the arthritis thing but my orthopedist told me my pain (left hip) was bursitis and was caused by constantly shifting my weight to my left side (I did that because of pain in rt. knee and swelling of tendonitis in my rt. foot as well as mild plantar fashitis).  So he gave me a cortisone shot and it helped for a while (not too sore at the moment) but my wt. gain on Aromasin (50 lbs.) is causing me more problems as my knees and ankles can't take it, so, I expect to have more bursitis (inflammation of the bursa which is a fluid filled area which keeps your hip joints moving without pain) in the future. getting old is really the pits but worse when we have to take meds whose full side-effects still aren't determined. So, are we the guinia pigs?

Hi

A newbie to this thread as I usually hang out on the Stage 4 site. I just wanted to add my bit about the arthritic hips. I have arthritis in my right hip - some days good, others, not so good. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had a bone scan to make sure I didn't have mets in the hip (have mets in the ribs). "Fortunately" it was arthritis! I take an anti-inflammatory when it becomes really painful.A couple of years ago, my frozen shoulder became unbearable, so I had cortisone jabs. The doctor and onc are against having it too often as it damages/weakens the cartilage, or something to that effect. My onc suggested acupunture. Did it 3 times and voila, the pain in the shoulder is so much better. Maybe, it would help with the hip. Good luck.

Iilacplane, I have been on Aromasin for the last 5 years, come June, and will be doing another 5, as some trial results reckon it drops the recurrence rate by about 30%. To date, I have gained 12.5kg's, so I wonder what the next 5 years will bring! Try to live with the SE's, aching bones, etc and generally feeling 100 years old!!!!!

Burning feet: I know the feeling only too well, cold tiles, here I come. When I complained about it to the onc she did a test for diabetes, as apparently, that is one of the symptons. Fortunately, it came back negative. I thought maybe it was a "left over" from the Xeloda which I was last on a couple of years back. Or, is it the Aromasin? Or, is it the Zometa? Or, is all the crap going to my feet?! At the moment, I think the brain is null and void!

Ladies, sorry, about the long winded post. 

Take care and cyberhugs