Bone mets

Pet, I didn't have mets but my primary cancer was in the bone. I had pain in my leg, thought it was just a bad knee. It hurt when I put weight on it, but I don't remember it hurting when I rested it. Other people with this cancer had pain that woke them up at night though. An x-ray was the first step in getting diagnosed - they can see abnormalities in the bone where the cancer (or whatever it is) is affecting it. Then they do further tests to see whether it's cancer or infection or something else. I don't know if that's true of all cancers of the bone, including mets to the bone, but I'd guess so??? As far as watching my original site, my leg, they just do x-rays of my leg every 3 months, nothing fancy. 

But I do get CTs of my lungs. In my kind of cancer, no matter where it goes (tends to go to the lungs), the cancer puts down bone, and that's how they find the mets. I suspect that's not the same for other primary cancers.

Wait, are you on treatment? G-CSF, which they give to make white blood cells come back up faster after chemo, can cause bone pain too.

Hoping it's not a met...

PatriciaV

I started with kidney cancer which has spread to my spine and pelvis.  The tumours did show up on x ray. The only problem is that tumour and damaged bone both look like white fluff on the x ray. I had vey little pain from it until one of my vertebrae collapsed and trapped nerves which was like being hit in the back with a shovel. I now have an injection every four week which slows bone regeneration and hardens the bones making it more difficult for the tumour to grow.  The injection is called denosumab or something similar.