Hi I have secondary breast cancer in the bones and have developed various areas of pain which halve successfully eased with radiotherapy and chemotherapy but in the last few days I am experiencing a short sharp pain in the top middle part of my back I will contact oncology tomorrow but tonight i am worried has anybody out there experienced this
Hi yes I have secondary breast cancer with mets in most of my bones. I have pain in my spine. I had really bad pain in the top middle of my back. I had one session of radiotherapy for this a few months ago. Over the last three days the pain has come back. Today is the most painful it has been. I am waiting for another MRI on my spine and also nuclear body bone scan. I have just doubled up on my tramadol. What pain medication are you taking for it?
Lee x
Hi thank you for replying it does make you feel better about things don't you think, anyway same here I've already had radiotherapy in my pelvis hip and upper back but the pain has come back in my back I'm going contact my doctor so they know and I take morphine tablets for my pain relief
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