New Poster Here!!

[chloe]

Hi to all, I am not new here I have been lurking in the background since I was diagnosed Feb. 2006 DCIS, ER PR -, HER 2+++, Grade 3, Mastectomy, Chemo X6, Herceptin for 1 year. I have been busy reading and learning from all of your wonderfully informative posts for the last 2 1/2 years. So know its time to come out of the closet. I had been experiencing some pain in my right leg (around my ankle and foot), my right rib area and right arm. I had a bone scan in March 2007 and all fine but did show some arthritis in the right shoulder. Throughout all of this I had some lower back pain which I never discussed with my doc because I chalked that up to age (although I am only 48) and bone change from the chemo and herceptin. I have recently went for a bone scan and the tech left the room to consultant with the radiologist and came back and said I am so sorry I should have offered you a pillow for your back, she realized my orders were for pain to other areas and asked why I didn't complain about the back pain and I explained why. She then said the radiologist wanted to take an extra picutre of just my lower back and she would not talk to me anymore, I told her that she was scaring me and was little unfair leaving me hanging since we were going into a holiday weekend and wouldn't hear until Monday now and she just stared at me like she had said too much already. Obviously she now has me (along with the pains I am having) convinced I have bone mets. Can anybody out there explain to me when you were diagnosed with bone mets what it felt like. I have been reading some really scare stuff like 2 year survival and most 5, although I do realize that varies and stats are stats. But as I go through this long holiday weekend I need some happy news to get me through. Funny though when I was originally diagnosed with DCIS I took it like a trooper and just marched through whatever needed to be done. I just can't figure why I am going off the deep end this time...I appreciate any insight you wonderful people can give me..