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Thanks all. I have a PCP appointment tomorrow. I have been caring for my mother, who died a few days ago. I am going to get an x-ray but that will be misleading since I have arthritis. I will ask for a PET scan at some point.
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I am sorry to hear about your mom. Losing my mom was was really hard thing for me.
I am really glad you are pushing for that PET scan.
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I am so sorry for your loss.
I have mets to the bones and they do a PET on me every few months to check on the metastasis. They inject me with "contrast" and after about 3 hours do the scan. DEXA is not used for checking bone mets. I sincerely hope that you don't have it but it'd be nice if you could get that PET out of the way soon.
Probably it varies from person to person, but I did not have any bone pain before the diagnosis and my diagnosis came de novo (I was stage 4 from the start).