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Thank you Quinn and kayb - got the call this morning and everything is clear, thank God. Making an appointment for a neurologist in about a month, hopefully symptoms subside and I can just not have to deal with that too. Thanks again! Phew!

Thanks seachain, I don't drink so I knew it wasn't alcohol related. I guess just another one of the gifts that cancer keeps on giving...sigh.

Yes indeed, the earliest appointment with a neurologist is December, but I'm on the cancellation list. Going to get a massage today. My sister thinks its anxiety manifesting itself, which could very well be.

so sorry melwee for what you and your family are going through. I lost my mother this year. My thoughts are with you.

For your question sounds like you need an advocate of some kind to help. Some of the people that maybe able to help are a social worker or a cancer navigator and if your mother has neither of those ask for a nurse.

Good luck and peace

Mary

melwee, no doctor can give a prognosis as no one knows if she will progress. If she is determined to live, why is she turning down chemo? Chemo has been around for many, many years and has proven results. Being on anti-hormonals is a good thing, so that should help her. Is she finished rads? That seems like a short treatment.

Why would a prognosis help her finances? I'm not sure what you are asking here.

Brookside, I was told years ago that they have to actually "catch" the stone by ultrasound trying to pass to be able to confirm a gallstone. My ultrasound said my gallbladder was normal, but what if I'd already passed a stone? It's frustrating...but thanks for the heads-up to Goonie as her and I are kind of going through the same thing right now.

Brookside. Thank you for that info I never thought about gallstones with gallbladder gone!! I googled it and you are totally right and that makes sense with pain I'm having!! I have dr apt today so hopefully will get answers soon!!

if this is helpful to anyone else, had an Ultasound last night for the lump in my solar plexus region. Radiology report came back (over the phone):

Hematoma or

Sebaceous cyst or

Fat necrosis

Looks like ^^

Two point something centimeter

"Fluid filled" (heard these words)

If it gets bigger, my MO might investigate further.

Fought off (not hard) a CT Scan. She kept mentioning that and still mentions for this and my sore rib spot. Also possibly a biopsy. Im just happily in waiting mode for either of those two steps. She wants me to call back sooner than my next appt (late October) for a progress report on if lump grows or if I still have rib soreness.

Like, like. Wish we had a like button. Thanks kayb and barbe!

Hi Barbe, just reading thru the posts here and wanted to ask you a question - did you have a ct scan that showed maybe spots on your liver that you thought maybe it was mets to the liver?

alexis, I wasn't feeling good, very tired and couldn't do a full day at work. I was seeing my surgeon anyway and asked him to do a CBC as well as LFT (liver function test) as I was having pain in my upper right quadrant. The levels were high which concerned us so on to the ultrasound. I can't get an MRI because I have a pacemaker.

Goonies, I've had a kidney issue show up only when a DOUBLE contrast CT was done so I don't know why they do it sometimes and not others!

So by nature I am not an alarmist. I have had medical issues for years before the BC diagnosis in May. I am lucky that I have stage 1 even though I have 4 tumors and a mix of IDC and ILC. I haven't had any treatment other then a BMX at the end of June. My lymph nodes were clear. My problem is that I have bad neck pain near base of scull. They did do a bone scan and said it was clear. Should I go to see my primary Dr or just deal with the pain and call it just bum luck? Could I have Mets and they just didn't find it on the bone scan? Does that happen? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.

hey gals,

this rib thing i have..

It definitely starts up after ten minutes or more walking..then is like a very bad stitch. a few times i have noticed it as a dull ache. this couple with both arms playing up with aching and swelling..

I've decided I should act on it.

my gut tells me maybe arthritis or osteo porosis in ribs.maybe stress fracture from this..

but you know..mr naggy head monster in my head tells me 'uh 'oh'....

not really listening to old naggy head though. I know I need to get this looked at. I'm thinking my chiropractor might be able to get me a bone scan, so i will ask her. its less scary coming from her than surgeon or onc. (yes, I am a big fat fraidy cat!!!!)

darn. wish it would just go away!!!

love astrid.

You can have bone mets that do not appear in a ct/bone scan. What I don't know is whether mets that don't appear in a scan could be significant enough to cause pain. That is a question for the bone mets ladies. I have a bone met but it is small, painless and probably healed. I've chosen denial as my way to approach my bone mets situation and don't know much about bone mets.

However, as barb said, you really have to consider stress and tension. What do you like to do to relieve stress and tension? Walk, massage, prayer, meditation? That will help no matter what is going here.

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