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Bone Pain Due To Metastatic Cancer
How I deal with this chronic issue
I was diagnosed with metastatic brain cancer back in April of 2021. I was given 6 months to live, but I am outlasting that prediction handily.
However, I have struggles.
One is that I now deal with chronic pain due to the cancer traveling to my bones. First it went into my lower back. Then into my right leg joint.
It is now out of my back according to an MRI. I am hoping it is also out of my leg but won’t know until my next test. I may ask if we can do a CT scan to check, though.
The issue is that the cancer damages the bones, so even when it goes away, the pain remains.
It’s a sad fact that I could be totally healed from the cancer (my hope) or at least stable and still deal with pain from cancer that is gone but has left its tracks behind.
I am coping with the pain in various ways — I use heating pads, OTC pain pills, and topical lidocaine. I could use prescription pain pills but I don’t like how they make me feel. I can’t think and I worry about their side-effects, so I only use them as a last recourse.
Other things I do that I think will help in the long run — daily light exercise, prayer, and eating whole foods along with supplements such as DHA…
