Metastatic breast cancer: Anyone else?

How true...retired moved to Florida and learned to play tennis. The muscle pains I was experiencing were really the return of cancer. I guess I am fortunate for now it is in the bones and not a major organ as yet. I see you have joined recently...is this a recent diagnosis for you?? How long have you been on this regimen?? Interesting that I get xgeva monthly and you every 3 months. I will have to ask my oncologist about that. Hope your next treatment works better. My oncologist tells me there are several other alternatives if need be. Hope the next one for you works better. Keep us updated...

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

Welcome @rae3. I'm glad you found us. I'm tagging fellow Connect members @wandering @barnum @silky59 and @saltis, all of whom have shared about having metastatic breast cancer. In the case of Silky, it is also bone metastases.

Rae, It must've been hard to believe that the cancer came back after 16 years. Soon after treatments one tends to think every ache and sniffle could be a sign that cancer has come back, but after 16 years, I bet this came as a shock. How are tolerating the injections?

I was diagnosed with two different cancers in my left breast in April of 2013. I felt the cancer in my nipple and knew something was wrong. I decided to have bilateral mastectomies on July 15, 2013. The 4th day, my husband took me home and within a half hour had left to go golfing. I couldn't even open a pill bottle! I should not have been surprised because he was never there when I was sick. I got lucky and didn't have to have chemo or radiation. I didn't think I would ever set foot in the Cancer Institute again. Low and behold, just 3-1/2 years later my back pain got so bad that I went to Urgent Care and from there to another doctor because they didn't know what was wrong. I found out my back is pretty much full of cancer, the clavicle, ribs spine, pelvis and some in my femur. I wish someone would have told me to watch for back pain!! So that was February of this year. I have had two rounds of radiation and was hospitalized for 3 days in May to try to get my pain under control. This was the most horrendous pain I have ever had! I was almost screaming and sobbing at the same time. I hated that my son and Mom and Dad had to see me like that. After radiation, my pain was gone for 2 months. It came back and has steadily increased, even though my CT was good in October. It seems that my morphine and Flexeril aren't doing anything for my pain now. I have been very depressed today. I go through this about every 3 weeks. I feel like I have nothing to live for. The world goes on around me and I sit in my apartment. I have heard many times, but what about your kids? I have the best kids in the world and they will live without me. I just don't want to end up like a few friends who laid in bed dying while their family watched in terrible pain.