Pinched nerve or bone mets?

Actually it was her oncologist who referred her to the neuroscience group because of the painful episode following the initial incident from lifting our daughter. We just got the neuro appointment and it is 3 weeks from now (the onc's office had not placed the referral yet). The main thing giving us some relief is the lack of urgency on the issue from both offices. The pain is not constant but bothersome and simply plants the "what if" seed.

We have full faith in her oncologist as she has ordered scans in the past for other pains/issues when she had concerns so now we wait. As I had noted originally, If there had been a true concern I would hope that they would have ordered an MRI/bone scan at the hospital where the follow ups are done rather than referring to a neurologist. She has had MRI's at the hospital in the past and they were able to schedule them fairly quickly.

Well, this time next week we should know something. Our neuro appt is this Friday and the emotional ups and downs of the "what ifs?" have been steady keeping our anxiety up.

The shoulder blade pain and arm numbness is not constant but is still lingering. On top of everything else the appt falls on Friday the 13th!

Well today is the appointment with the neuro-science center. She has not had any acute pain since they called to make the appointment, just the occasional reminder that would come from shoulder blade discomfort and arm numbness. We truly pray that this is related to the lifting incident back in November when she was lifting our daughter and not what all of us are scared of. Again, we are clinging to the expertise of her oncologist who, as I said in the earlier post, had ordered immediate scans in the past when she found anything that gave her concerns. The fact that she told my DW that she wanted to refer her to this center for her shoulder issues instead of her seeing the chiropractor that she was gives us hope. The onc could have ordered the tests for the next day at the hospital if she thought it was serious, right? We had an MRI done there 2 years ago that was ordered by her.

Anyway, I will stop rambling because it either is or isn't and now we can only wait and see what happens. Looking at the clock and knowing that we will have some sort of news in about less than 5 hours.

The anxiety meter is starting to redline.

Thank you.

This is just unreal. I am a cancer survivor as well and have my 6 month follow up on Monday. So we will both be having scans within 2 days of each other and try to keep it together for the kids sake while we wait. We were both initially diagnosed within 3 months of each other a little over 4 years ago. This is so stressful and this would be/is going into year 5 which is the magic number right?

A lot has happened this week, and not on the good side, prior to this so I just can't imagine that life would deal this to us. Is the MRI being requested the standard for something like this or do they suspect something that they are not letting onto?

I'm somewhat at a loss even though we don't know anything other than the doctor ordered an MRI to rule out a recurrence based on the cancer history. They prescribed steroids for her and have set up the follow up for treatment as though the recurrence was not an issue but she's not going to fill the script until she gets the results and I agree with her. Now we just have to put on the happy face for the weekend and make the best of it as though nothing is going on. Our children are both young and they are weighing very heavy on both of us if this were to be true. Our oldest was just going into preschool when we were diagnosed so he doesn't really remember and our daughter wasn't born yet. My wife was 36 weeks pregnant with her when she was diagnosed.

Sorry to vent. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Answer to my own question is yes after consulting Dr. Google. This diagnosis is fairly rare but is very often a tumor issue.

I just dropped our 8 year old son off at a birthday party and got teary eyed watching him with all of the other happy children. It just hurts wondering if this is the last time he gets to feel like a normal, happy little boy for a while? I can't think straight at this point, my mind is clouded with the "what if" and I can't seem to push it away. This time last week we were so happy and this entire week has been awful with the MRI being ordered on Friday taking it all to the next level. Nausea seems to be my constant companion.

Thank you Alice.

She was already given an initial diagnosis of brachial neuritis and prescribed steroids for inflammation. They are doing the MRI to rule out mets.

The scariest part was looking up that condition and seeing that it is fairly rare and is a common symptom of mets. I am still holding out for the cause being the lifting incident she had with our daughter in November which is when this all started.

She did have rads to the chest on that side, that was 4 years ago.