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Anyone out there living with stage 4 lung cancer?
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@fowlair
Hi
I am new here. My husband who is 65 years old had a lower back ache and nothing helped it get better. He finally went in to get an MRI and they found a tumor in his right lung and it had spread to his lower back bones.
This was so - out of the blue - but, Thank God we went in to get his back checked.
We are waiting on some chemotherapy for him, it should be soon.
In the meantime, my husband has back pain and pain pills but, he still seems in so much pain. I HATE seeing him in pain, it is so awful. I am really trying to be strong and positive when I am with him , it is difficult.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how better I can help his back pain possibly?
I want to make him as comfortable as possible while he goes through this awful disease.
Thank you
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@sipka Sorry to hear about your husband's situation and the sudden news. We had a similar experience this summer and took us a while to get over it and accept the fact that my husband has stage 4 with metastasis being asymptomatic. With your situation similar to ours, they may do a chemotreatment cycle first (4 rounds once every 3 weeks) and in between those cycles put him on SBRT radiation if those spots are good targets for radiation. For back pain, oxycodone for 5 days helped him and he could then stop taking them. Hope they give him something to help with pain. Lung cancer is so tricky since lungs feel no pain and they are hard to detect till metastatic sometimes, unfortunately for us. Hang in there!
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@sipka, it is so hard to see someone in pain. Like you, I hope the chemotherapy will provide some relief from the pain. Does you husband have a pain medicine/palliative care doctor who helps with pain management?
I can imagine you feel helpless and wish you could take his pain away. Sending you a virtual hug.
When will he start chemotherapy? Has raditaion been discussed to help with the pain?