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Replies to "So good to hear from you Sue and with such amazing news. By radiation, are you..."
No Sue, that was my oversight. You posted about your 2-week radiation treatment on your hip for bone mets here https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/this-is-my-first-post-in-the-bones-joints-and-muscles-section/?pg=1#post-222984. I wonder if you'll get scans on the 29th?
@colleenyoung Perhaps I put that update in the wrong place. I had posted somewhere about the bone metastases in my pelvis. Or maybe I just thought I posted it? (I am on a couple different forums and may have confused things.)
No, the radiation therapy I was referring to is what I had over a 2-week period In early May for the growth on my right ileac crest. Somehow a fast growing bone lesion had grown through my right hip bone (which probably had started back in February.) By mid-march I was in excruciating pain and felt like I was walking on a broken leg. I had to stay off it for almost 2 months, but did use a cane so that I could at least move around the house. The tests and finally the treatment took over a month to get going.
I still have some pain as I'm sure the 3 inch lesion is still there but maybe smaller? Not sure when I'll have pelvic scans again to find out.