Hip Mets?

Have you had a ct scan.. or see your Dr?  It could be anything.. if you have had this pain for more than 2-3 weeks I would get it checked out...It doesnt say what stage you are..Make an appointment with your Dr.. and take it from there. .Good Luck..Let us know how you are doing

Donna

Yes. In fact, I had intermittent pain in my left hip, on and off, sometimes VERY painful, sometimes just minor to moderate little twinges, for maybe two years PRIOR to my breast beginning to change! Given my age at the time the hip pain started (earlyish/middle-ish 40s) and the fact that the pain was so varied in type and INTERMITTENT in frequency -- it would hurt for anywhere from a day to a week, and then not hurt at all for weeks or months so I'd actually forget about it till it came back -- I attributed it to "old age," which was especially easy to for me because when I would GET this pain (in the morning around get-out-of-bed time), it always made me think of my Pack Rat's father, who had severe pain in one of his hips for YEARS before he ended up getting a hip replacement operation!  (and no, cancer was not the cause of his problem)

Anyway, a couple of years after my hip pains started, I was diagnosed with the Stage IV breast cancer -- it was the staging scans found a substantial met in my left iliac bone, which was how and when I found out WHERE that pain in my left hip was really coming from! :-O

My most recent CT/PET scans (November 2010) show my hip met to be "gone," but I still occasionally get the pains in my left hip. I asked my doctor about it and she said even though a bone met can be "gone," there's still damage to the bone itself from the met having been there in the first place, and THAT can occasionally be uncomfortable or painful. OK........well I guess that's what painkillers are for, huh?

No, thanks for asking.  I was told I didn't need it.   I had my ovaries out just prior to the Dx .  I have been told I havd the bones of a 60 year old and my doc just gave me pain meds a year before my dx.  I need knee replacements and then my hips start hurting this year ....such a bummer.  I never had a bone scan but the PET was negative.  I made an appt with a personal trainer to start an exercise program suitable to my level and build the muscles and hopefully it will help.

What is the treatment then?

The likihood of getting both knees and hips replaced is next to none, but I saw a Pain Specialist last week.  She was very compassionate and informative.  She really took her time with me.  I felt so glad after seeing her and walked out with MRI/Xray orders and three pain meds.  I  felt so much better in three days, and went away as my father passed away and didn't take the one med., and pain returned.  This is so depressing for me as I was very active a few years ago.  I am putting Lidocaine patches on my hips for 12 hrs a day with good relief.  They were pretty expensive but it it helps me sleep better, it is worth it.  The most important thing she said was that I should follow up with the onc.  She was surprised I wasn't being followed, even though I was stage 1.  THEN she told me about her being stage 0 and is followed regularly every three months!   Thanks ladies...just goes to show that when we see some docs, they can 'relate' sometimes, ya know?

That is good information sofr8fl....thanks for sharing 

I had a nuclear bone scan yesterday and if anything, that and the dexi will be a baseline to compare if I ever need them again.  

Keep on truckin, let us know if you find out anything ...good luck

Sharon, just read your post.  Am a runner also - started feeling severe groin pain in Feb 2011.  Thought I had pulled some muscle or tendon but it did not improve.  Saw my oncologist and started the round - x-ray, scan - they showed fractures in the pelvis and hip joint.  On to an MRI - it was either stress fractures from running and osteoporosis (caused by early menopause from BC treatments starting at 38 - or bone mets.  Preliminary results show the former (stress fractures). Am seeing the DR on Monday.  So my message is: could be serious (but healable) or very serious.... Have it checked out.  Chemo does not prvent recurrences in all cases. Good luck!