Bone cancer pain query

Apologies if this has been double posted, but my PC is
playing up when it comes to posting these queries.

I'm trying to ascertain whether bone cancer (e.g. hip)
causes pain in the early stages, whether it can cause severe
pain which then subsides only to return, or whether severe
localised hip pain is more likely down to something else
entirely. I'm still waiting on a nuclear imaging bone scan
to be done, but my right hip pain now seems to have settled
despite my docs high concern for it being something
sinister. I've lost a lot of weight while having the
increased pain in that area over the past year and have been
on OxyContin to keep it settled.

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.

REgards Romayne

PS - I live in the UK.

Romayne Wright wrote:

> Apologies if this has been double posted, but my PC is
> playing up when it comes to posting these queries.
>
> I'm trying to ascertain whether bone cancer (e.g. hip)
> causes pain in the early stages, whether it can cause
> severe pain which then subsides only to return, or whether
> severe localised hip pain is more likely down to something
> else entirely. I'm still waiting on a nuclear imaging bone
> scan to be done, but my right hip pain now seems to have
> settled despite my docs high concern for it being
> something sinister. I've lost a lot of weight while having
> the increased pain in that area over the past year and
> have been on OxyContin to keep it settled.
>
> Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
>
> REgards Romayne
>
> PS - I live in the UK.

Romayne, there's a phone number here
http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/Home Try there J

"Romayne Wright" <Romayne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f9e6af6.0405191456.6b2e2a63@posting.google.com...
> Apologies if this has been double posted, but my PC is
> playing up when it comes to posting these queries.
>
> I'm trying to ascertain whether bone cancer (e.g. hip)
> causes pain in the early stages, whether it can cause
> severe pain which then subsides only to return, or whether
> severe localised hip pain is more likely down to something
> else entirely. I'm still waiting on a nuclear imaging bone
> scan to be done, but my right hip pain now seems to have
> settled despite my docs high concern for it being
> something sinister. I've lost a lot of weight while having
> the increased pain in that area over the past year and
> have been on OxyContin to keep it settled.
>
> Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
>
> REgards Romayne
>
You don't say whether you have a cancer diagnosis. Certainly
if you do there is some cause for concern but if not then
best wait for the test results as other diagnoses are more
likely. MIKE

"Romayne Wright" <Romayne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f9e6af6.0405191456.6b2e2a63@posting.google.com...
> Apologies if this has been double posted, but my PC is
> playing up when it comes to posting these queries.
>
> I'm trying to ascertain whether bone cancer (e.g. hip)
> causes pain in the early stages, whether it can cause
> severe pain which then subsides only to return, or whether
> severe localised hip pain is more likely down to something
> else entirely. I'm still waiting on a nuclear imaging bone
> scan to be done, but my right hip pain now seems to have
> settled despite my docs high concern for it being
> something sinister. I've lost a lot of weight while having
> the increased pain in that area over the past year and
> have been on OxyContin to keep it settled.
>

Pain due to "benign" causes tends to be longstanding, fairly
constant, and only gradually gets worse. It usually improves
with rest. Pain due to metastatic disease tends to have a
fairly sudden onset (over a few days or weeks), gets worse
as time goes on, and may improve with rest temporarily, but
the trend is for it to worsen.

In patients who have a history of the common bone-avid
cancers (breast, prostate, thyroid, kidney, bladder, bowel)
any severe bone pain is best considered cancer until proven
otherwise....

Mike Radcliffe wrote:

> "Romayne Wright" <Romayne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:f9e6af6.0405191456.6b2e2a63@posting.google.com...
> > Apologies if this has been double posted, but my PC is
> > playing up when it comes to posting these queries.
> >
> > I'm trying to ascertain whether bone cancer (e.g. hip)
> > causes pain in the early stages, whether it can cause
> > severe pain which then subsides only to return, or
> > whether severe localised hip pain is more likely down to
> > something else entirely. I'm still waiting on a nuclear
> > imaging bone scan to be done, but my right hip pain now
> > seems to have settled despite my docs high concern for
> > it being something sinister. I've lost a lot of weight
> > while having the increased pain in that area over the
> > past year and have been on OxyContin to keep it settled.
> >
> > Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > REgards Romayne
> >
> You don't say whether you have a cancer diagnosis.
> Certainly if you do there is some cause for concern but if
> not then best wait for the test results as other diagnoses
> are more likely. MIKE

This is what she posted last Friday on alt.support.cancer

J Subject: Bone cancer pain query Date: 14 May 2004 07:00:32
-0700 From: Romayne@hotmail.com (Romayne Wright)
Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups:
alt.support.cancer

Hi all I've recently been diagnosed with a smallish (4-cm)
bone cancer lesion (can't remember type) in my right hip,
which was picked up on bone scan after I had had horrendous
right hip pain for 9 months with few other obvious symptoms
although also suffer from a range of autoimmune conditions.
I've been on OxyContin but thankfully lowish doses (no more
than 40 mg a day) were keeping the pain well under control.
However, for some strange reason my pain has now all but
totally disappeared this past two weeks and I've not needed
to take pain meds at all. I've not yet had treatment as I'm
waiting for another biopsy and things don't move fast here
in the UK sometimes, so it's not down to anything like that.
Just wondered if this is a good sign or can it happen
periodically and mean nothing at all?

Thanks Romayne