What does “bone pain” feel like when cancer has spread there?

Me too! I’ve got unbelievable hiP pain which might be bursitis but this new lot of pain is way worse than last time when bursitis was diagnosed plus I have the pain in both sides now and it’s a deep throbbing accompanied by stabbing pain depending on how I move. I’m having an ultrasound guided steroid injection in a few days and if that doesn’t help my GP will order a bone or CT scan. I’ve had lobular BC with mastectomy.

I had something similar earlier this year and it turned out to be tendonitis, but like you, I was terrified. I went to an ortho surgeon; he did a physical exam and an x-ray.

Eventually, after I switched shoes for hiking/running and stopped going so deeply into yoga poses and made sure I sat up straight (no slumping) at work and watching TV, it went away. I still feel it from time to time and chalk it up to the aromasin I take and the fact that I'm so physically active.

Claire in AZ

sorry .. sciatic

I would say its a feeling unlike any other. Its deep, gets worse at night. You can tame the pain a bit with painkillers, but it never goes away. You cant ice or heat it away, although that will bring some relief. Whatever the ailment is also gets worse over time. Its not sharp or burning like nerve pain or sciatica, its not throbbing like a pulled muscle its just... deep and always there. A neulasta injection sort of resembles it, but its a deeper, more painful feeling.

Yours sounds closer to sciatica - when I thought I had sciatica (but it was bone mets) it never got better with walking or movement and it was always there in the background, there was never really a comfortable spot. When I had a disc prolapse, there were comfortable ways I could sit or lay, however.

like most people, I've had back pain over the years, it comes it goes. In January, I had back pain that didn't go away. It was a bit more intense than what I had previously experienced. I ordered a chair pad for my office and a standing desk, so I could sit or stand as needed-this was saying a lot...I don't typically address pain. The pain persisted a few weeks, so I called my onc. By the time I was able to get in for an appointment, the pain had gone away. Thank God I kept my appointment and that my onc was proactive enough to order scans. Found mets to my sacrum, several vertabrae, and to my ribs along with an enlarged lymph node. The rib is not and was not painful. The best word I can use to describe is, "tender". When/if I lay on my side, I can feel something is off.

If you're feeling a "different" kind of pain, go get it checked out. I am that person that can google and explain anything away. I am learning that my Google MD isn't worth a heck of a lot! Voice your concerns...it's worth the co-pay. LISTEN to your gut!!