having left flank pain, ultrasound tomorrow, worried

Footstomper said:

Pain

Woke up screaming with massive pain in my right flank. Phoned my Oncologist and he said to go to the local ER. For 3 days they gave ct scans, xrays and lots and lots of lovely morphine shots. They found...

Nothing.

So they sent me home with lots of opiates in pill form (which made me feel sick) and sent all the test results to my onc.

They gave me a diagnosis of "Dunno... could be a pulled muscle?" with which my onc concurred

Bloody hurt tho'!

I can really understand your anxiety (I constantly worry that every twitch or twang is a met) but the probability that something grew in just two months to a size large enough to give you pain strikes me as pretty slim. Hope the US tomorrow relieves your worries with clean results. Hang in there!

foroughsh said:

I hope for "nothing" as

I hope for "nothing" as ultrasound report and keep telling myself, it's impossible in just two months, more than thousands of times,  I repeat it to myself, but it still makes me worried. I had odd pains since surgery, chest pain started seven months after surgery and continued for almost six months, headache which made me go to ER twice in a week are two examples, every time I had to have C.T scans to find out that it's nothing. I don't really know why all these happen after my surgery, I had no same problems before the diagnosis, maybe it's stress showing itself as pain?

foroughhsh,

Hopefully nothing more than a little scanziety which is a free perk from the neph.

Icemantoo

Forough, I can't imagine that this is related to your rcc.  Two months ago CT normal, even if you were to have reoccurrence I can't believe that you would already be symptomatic. Rcc is a sloth as far as growth goes (I think that’s why is doesn’t respond to chemo)

It could be a kidney stone, UTI, a GI issu like IBS, gallbladder, or you've pulled a muscle or something like that.  

Did anyone do a UA? 

Jason

foroughsh said:

Thank you all for your

Thank you all for your positive posts, I've just received the report, it's fine.  Nothing wrong is with my kidney.

Forough

since there has been cutting of soft tissue and then some scarring that has disupted pain and sensory receptors, our bodies do not percieve this as normal. And even though you may feel good and begin to do more, a withdrawl response is triggered. Like when you touch a hot stove and your hand pulls away. Unfortunately since a withdrawl response is not able to remove the stimulus that initiated it, it just tightens muscles which become irritating to themselves. Now you deveope a persistant reflex arc that is painful. This does not resolve until the reflex is interupted. Drugs help with the pain but do not stop the process. With time and normal motion and activity our bodies accommodate to the changes of our new normal. The protective response is no longer effective and your system adapts to the new you. And voila, you've recovered. Knowing how to make this happen and the skill to do it escapes most. The right physical therapist can be of immense help.

Jojo61 said:

Happy to hear that your

Happy to hear that your ultrasound showed nothing. The same thing happened to me about a year ago....and nothing as well. We can't help but wonder every time we have pain....it is the curse of cancer!

Enjoy your weekend!!

Hugs

Jojo

Great to hear all is well!

APny said:

Great to hear all is well!

Great to hear all is well!

Great news! Next time, once you get some pain, please remind yourself of this outcome, and try not to jump to worst case scenario (this advise sounds pretty strange from hypochondriac like me), but this is the only way to keep sanity.

glad for you!

Alla