Do bone mets hurt? Numbness in back

Koryn

 Don't know what it should feel like, but I had numbness and tingling in my fingers and feet for 6 months.  I had xray nothing and then a CT which showed a tumor.  After my MRI it showed that it had been there for years and could be part of my bone degeneration (I'm only 37) which the onco said is on par with levels of my age. 

Best of luck for your bone scan tomorrow.  Hope your results will be good and b9 if anything.

Jinny

I had numbness and pain in my right upper back. My surgeries were on my right side also)  Doctor did a bone scan and it was fine.  So about a month ago she took me off Femara and put me on Arimidex.  I feel perfectly fine now.  I am assuming all the back pain was from the Femara.  What a difference a pill makes.

Dear KorynH,

I have extensive bone  mets throughout my spine, and starting having numbness on left side (affected breast on right side).  Numbness would come and go, but seemed to be aggravated when I did too much housework or sat at my desk too long.  My oncologist finally ordered an MRI about 10 months into my diagnosis.  Turns out I had numerous disc herniations between T-3 and T-8 - right in region where numbness radiated from -  not caused by cancer, just by poor posture over the years and hunching over desk grading papers, etc.  My local doctor looked at the report and decided to send me to physical therapy.  Physical therapy really helped - helped to strengthen my muscles, so that they could support my spine/vertebrae better.  Physical therapist said that he sees this a lot in folks who work behind a desk.  Numbness feels weird - glad your bone scan was clear.  Maybe MRI will help point doctors in direction of a solution.

Regards,

Becky

I'm wondering too.

I've had "real" pain (as opposed to pressure, discomfort, numbness) before when first diagnosed with mets, and changed to aromasin - that subsided (whew!).  It was not really where the mets are, more in the hips/upper legs wheres mets are in pelvis and sacrum?

Now markers have been going berserk (CA15.3 up to 770 from 200 in a couple of months), after changing hormonal therapy again (to Fareston and megace).  Off the megace, back on aromasin, still on fareston...   and we are patiently giving it a chance to see if it is a tumourfare type response, since i felt fine otherwise.  But now am scared since the last few days I've had a rather heavy numbness/pressure/weakness? in the areas where the scans say the mets are.

Googling forum posts tells me that apparently "dying" cancercells can cause pain, also "dead tumours" apparently can cause something since they were in a weird way supporting, so lack may cause something.... so hoping it is that, but am scared and don't want family scared too and it is 3 weeks before the next blood test.