[Sherryg683]

I have had rib pain since my surgery in December 05, all my scans are clean but my ribs continue to hurt. Not as much now as in the beginning but they are still sore. Since I've been on this Neurotin for my shingle pains, the rib pains aren't quite as bad. Hell, I pretty much hurt all over these days with all this infected nerve crap, so I don't know which way is up. All I can go by is that my scans were clean in February. I was having terrible shingle pains when I got my scans and the radiologist told me that they might be picked up on the PET/CT scan...great that was all I needed a scan that would light up all over my right side, that would be enough to send me over the edge....luckily they didn't show up. I still get this fantom pain where my gall bladder is that burns like crazy, had this when I was on chemo. I had it checked out many times and they can't find anything, it just burns. I've come to accept that with this cancer is going to come all sorts of pains we can't explain but are pretty much nothing to worry about...sherryg683