Finger joint stiffness and pain (especially in the morning)

It is likely that this is caused by one of the treatments.  Do you have other muscle pain.  Hormone treatment generally causes this side effect.   Have you tried physiotherapy?  Here we can refer ourselves for physiotherapy so it may be worth just trying to get to see someone maybe even paying to go and see someone privately as they could give you exercvises and suggest a cream painkiller to help.  I have a similar problem but not connected with the cancer treatment but just old age.  Every morning I have to slowly bend and stretch and rub my fingers to loosen them up and also have to do this at times during the day if I have not moved my fingers for some time.  The pain can be quite bad and there are occassions when I either have to take medication and rub a painkilling cream containing something like ibuprofen into my hands.  I use a generic ibuprofen cream, movelat cream or sometimes voltarol cream as I cannot take the stronger pain killers due to a heart condition. As the voltarol cream is so expensive I use that at night which usually means I can go through until I have to painfully uncurl my fingers in the morning.be careful not to touch your more tender parts, mouth, eyes etc with the voltarol cream.  Hope you can find something that works for you.

Hi Rob

I had a similar prognosis to you-was given 3 months to 11 years by my consultant. Started with a psa 0f 1000

had 6 sessions of chemo and am on Zolodex and Bicalutamide 50mg tablets. Also had 6 Chemo sessions.

I continued to walk 5 Km every day throughout treatment, slept a lot and ate loads.

Like you, the joints in my hands ached crazily and I thought arthritis/osteo and lost the grip in my left hand but the right remains workable even though I cant fully make a fist. Just before the cancer diagnosis, I went for treatment of  a frozen right shoulder which hurt like hell but ultimately didn't make much difference to begin with but over the last year it has improved. 2 things have helped my left hand-self massaging it and exercising it by opening and closing to make a fist as much as possible. I also got compression gloves from Amazon which gave me relief at night and on days when my hand felt particularly weak and vulnerable-I got instant relief from them when my hand was bad.. Comfier hand massager costs £60 on amazon. The frozen shoulder has improved-about 60 percent normal and I've accepted that's as good as it going to get. Such a pain when you have to deal with pain when you're wiping your arse!

Chin up, you're not alone.

I've ordered one of those hand massagers today, thank you for sharing your experiences.

I have been offered a steroid injection for my shoulder but I'm so fed up with treatments I just want a break, but perhaps I'll try that after a few more months.

I have linked in this thread which might be of interest.

 Treatment Side Effects