Ache in my hip...

I don't know about bone mets but I hear it often doesn't hurt until a bone breaks. It's very possible that you injured yourself exercising.  I would go find a doctor and have it checked out but I don't think I'd freak out too much.

Im sure somebody else will answer your question about what it feels like. 

Kim;  I'm going throught the same as you with the exception of my aches and pains being in both hips.  I also had good tumor marker test results yesterday but my onc is doing a bone scan just to be sure and to alleviate my concern. 

I basically sailed through all of this and for some reason, I have been so focused on a possible recurrence.  He highly doubts it is a recurrence but says it doesn't hurt to check on it.

I honestly think I've developed Trochanteric Bursitis which affects the outer surface of the hip joint and can be caused from an injury or for that matter being sedentary.  It can produce pain when standing up, walking, climbing and for that matter be aggrevated from laying on your side. 

Worth getting checked out however so  I would definitely request a bone scan and from there you can see an ortho.  Good luck Heather

I had hip aches and left lower back aches. It prompted me back to my Oncologist a couple of months ago (I had finished my treatment at end of Feb 2011). He ordered another bone scan to "rule out mets" and it came back clear. I still have the ache in my hip and back. It is also in my left breast (my cancer was in my right breast). I called my Onco again (Yep, he probably thinks I am crazy) and he "is not concerned". I wish that I wasn't such a worrywart that is for sure but I was diagnosed twice last year (first time cervical, then breast)--both times I went to Doc after some ache prompted me--obviously I have become hyper-vigilant with my aches/pains. I am heading to my GP tomorrow for regular check up (as I am still off work) and I am going to ask her to check my left side. If nothing is found, someone suggested an osteopath to help with the muscles....honestly, cancer drives you crazy

I don't know anything about how bone mets feel, but I was having a pain in my neck for several days in a row.  It really hurt a lot.  I was worried there was cancer there.  The onc is always feeling my neck at appointments.  I guess there are lymph nodes there?   I told my DH about it and he reminded me that I slipped in the shower a few days earlier and fell all the way back and hit my head.  He said I probably wrenched my neck.  He was right!  It took a couple more days and I was back to normal.  I am sure most of the time it ends up being something like that.  Rachel5738,  definitely agree with you, cancer drives me crazy too!

I'm the same....don't want tests through the summer. Last summer, I started treatment. I dud see my Doc today... She isn't concerned ... Seems to be the same line as my oncologist. She suggested anti-inflammatory.

Kim, mets will keep you awake at night and it would be difficult to lay down you would find it extremely difficult to find a comfortable position.  If your pain is coming more in the  morning I would suggest that it could well be more muscle and ligamant pain and you are feeling it in the morning because you stay in one place for a long time when you are sleeping.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

I find that it is problematic in the morning-- and sometimes it wakes me up at night--usually more towards the early am--then is fine most of the day...... I am going to give it another week before I think about going to the dr.  Ibuprofen seems to work ok, but I am a week out of the gym, and that affects me even more.....

Hi

I am on lupron and femara---  had managed to pretty much mitigate all of the stiffness over the past 2 years--- mostly with exercise.  Because this came on after a particularly aggressive day at the gym, and has gotten better over the week, I think it is related... also, I can tell when I stretch that it feels like a muscle or a ligament.  BUT, all that said, it does hurt (although not hurting right now--- seems to be fine) periodically.  And, seems to be worse sitting- non-existent when standing..... 

I will get checked if it does not continue to subside this week--it is already far better this week than last.... but if it is arthritis, I need to know that.  I am waiting for my bone density test results from May--- so far, it has been normal, but I know that these drugs have an effect.  

I have been thinking about taking a drug"vacation" (if onc approves) just to see if this settles down.... still need to think about it.

thanks--- let's see what this week brings.  

I have been on tamox for 15 months or so, and my hips ache off and on all day.  If you check the tamox boards, you'll see a lot of us have the same aches and soreness.  My onc's office recommended Tylenol Arthritis, and it has helped somewhat. Every time I stand up, I kind of swagger and stretch....I hate that it makes me feel older than I am.

Add me to the list- on Tamoxifen almost 3 years, and a bad achy hip tonight. It gets really tight if I don't exercise, but workouts make it ache. Sitting at a desk all day bothers me, too. I would LOVE to take a vacation form Tamox, but I don't think I dare. I am only 46!

Great news Kim!