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- October 4, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Bone metastasis can absolutely present in the way you’re describing. I walked around for 7 months this year thinking that I had tennis elbow. It was a bone lesion at the same location at which tennis elbow would present. One month after 10 radiation treatments-my arm feels fine. -
- October 4, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Bone metastasis can absolutely present in the way you’re describing. I walked around for 7 months this year thinking that I had tennis elbow. It was a bone lesion at the same location at which tennis elbow would present. One month after 10 radiation treatments-my arm feels fine.-
- October 4, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Larry complained of pain in his shin and was limping for 3 months. Pain was there but not an bad when he was resting. Doctors told him it was probably a sprain. When he started having other problems they did an x ray whch showed a spot on his bone.
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- October 4, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Larry complained of pain in his shin and was limping for 3 months. Pain was there but not an bad when he was resting. Doctors told him it was probably a sprain. When he started having other problems they did an x ray whch showed a spot on his bone.
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- October 4, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Larry complained of pain in his shin and was limping for 3 months. Pain was there but not an bad when he was resting. Doctors told him it was probably a sprain. When he started having other problems they did an x ray whch showed a spot on his bone.
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- October 5, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Obviously each situation will be different. My pain started in January. When I didn't know what I had, icing it and wearing a brace helped. I never took meds for my elbow. However, I did need to take them for around 2 days in July for a stomach issue. My recollection is that while the meds took the edge off of the stomach pain, they did nothing for my elbow. My advice would be to get an x-ray. An x-ray is what ultimately showed my bone lesion. I hadn't gotten an x-ray because I hadn't fallen, etc. I had also been 10 years removed from a stage I melanoma and had no idea to look for a bone lesion. In hindsight, my elbow was the first noticeable manifestation of my (now) Stage IV melanoma.
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- October 5, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Obviously each situation will be different. My pain started in January. When I didn't know what I had, icing it and wearing a brace helped. I never took meds for my elbow. However, I did need to take them for around 2 days in July for a stomach issue. My recollection is that while the meds took the edge off of the stomach pain, they did nothing for my elbow. My advice would be to get an x-ray. An x-ray is what ultimately showed my bone lesion. I hadn't gotten an x-ray because I hadn't fallen, etc. I had also been 10 years removed from a stage I melanoma and had no idea to look for a bone lesion. In hindsight, my elbow was the first noticeable manifestation of my (now) Stage IV melanoma.
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- October 5, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Obviously each situation will be different. My pain started in January. When I didn't know what I had, icing it and wearing a brace helped. I never took meds for my elbow. However, I did need to take them for around 2 days in July for a stomach issue. My recollection is that while the meds took the edge off of the stomach pain, they did nothing for my elbow. My advice would be to get an x-ray. An x-ray is what ultimately showed my bone lesion. I hadn't gotten an x-ray because I hadn't fallen, etc. I had also been 10 years removed from a stage I melanoma and had no idea to look for a bone lesion. In hindsight, my elbow was the first noticeable manifestation of my (now) Stage IV melanoma.
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- October 4, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Bone metastasis can absolutely present in the way you’re describing. I walked around for 7 months this year thinking that I had tennis elbow. It was a bone lesion at the same location at which tennis elbow would present. One month after 10 radiation treatments-my arm feels fine.
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