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My butt hurts
So I've been sitting a lot at work for the past week and now my butt is hurting quite a bit. I don't want to be alarmed and immediately think it's a sign of mets, but as we all know, every pain and ache after cancer can put us in high alert.
I'm not in pain every day (wasn't yesterday but am again today after I sat in the car to drive kids to school and now at work) so I'm trying to think that it's just due to the sitting.
But can a pain in the butt literally be an indication of a pain in the butt bone met? Where are the more common places for a bone met to occur? Should I be alarmed? How can I tell whether the pain is in the muscle vs in the bone? I don't feel pain anywhere else but in the buttocks where I sit.
Thank you so much!!! Trying not to stress...
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ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+, stage 3
Diagnosed on 02/18/09 at 38 with a huge 12x10 cm tumor, after a 6 month delay. Told I was too young and had no risk factors. Found swollen node during breastfeeding.
March-August 09: neo-adjuvant chemo, part of a trial at Stanford (4 DD A/C, 4 Taxotere with daily Tykerb), loading dose of Herceptin
08/12/09 - bye bye boobies (bilateral mastectomy)
08/24/09 - path report shows 100 % success in breast tissue (no cancer there, yay!), 98 % success in lymphatic invasion, and even though 11/13 nodes were still positive, > 95 % of the tumor in them was killed. Hoping for the best!
September-October 09: rads with daily Xeloda
02/25/10 - Cholecystectomy
05/27/10 - Bone scan clear
06/14/10 - CT scan clear, ovarian cyst found
07/27/10 - Done with Herceptin!
02/15/11 - MVA-BN HER-2 vaccine trial
03/15/11 - First CA 15-3: 12.7 and normal, yay!
10/01/11 - Bone scan and CT scan clear, fatty liver found
now on Tamoxifen and Aspirin
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