Hello there, I’m coming up for three years into a diagnosis of HER2 neg, pr/er pos breast cancer - stage 4 since diagnosis, no mastectomy, but taking Letrazole, Palbocilib, Adcal and, as long as my white blood cells are high enough, a Denosumab injection monthly. I also have a morphine patch due to a painful spine with sclerosed metastatic involvement. On the face of it I’m doing ok, disease remains stable according to CT/MRI scans, but I’m having some symptoms which I find more difficult to deal with. Getting up in the morning is painful as it feel as though all my joints have seized up during the night and I constantly feel tired/fatigued. Does anyone else experience this feeling of locked joints? Obviously, as an older breast cancer patient I don’t expect to feel as young as I did, but this joint problem is a new one and quite debilitating/upsetting. Any thoughts would be gratefully received. Thank you!
Hi OurKid
Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you have stage 4 breast cancer. WhileI don’t have the answer you are looking for I noticed that you haven’t had any replies yet so I thought I’d reply to you to welcome you to the community. This reply should move you to the top of the discussion. Hopefully someone will be along shortly with an answer for you.
Best wishes
Daisy53
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