Hi -
I don't have an answer - but I am having a similar experiece. Pain on my left side near my kidneys - exactly as you describe. I've found that driking a lot of water will cause the pain to subside.
I've been to the GP, urologist and my oncologist. I've had a CT sca, a specialized kidney scan (I've forgotten the name of it), urine test etc. Everything comes back normal.
And that's good. But the pain continues to come and go.
At this point, my only theory is that is may be some kind of chemo side effect. This started for me soon after carboplatin was added to my taxotere-herceptin combo. I[ve heard from the nurses that carboplatin is "hard" on the kidneys.
I'll be very interested if anyone has any thoughts on this issue.
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