Ankle pain - when is it time to panic?
Quite frankly I'm immensely shitty that I (or any one of us) should have to battle a serious case of stomach churning dread just because of a little niggling joint pain but that's the way it is now so here goes:
I finished 16 rounds of dose dense chemo in the middle of April and had a bilateral mastectomy a month ago. I'm triple negative so I'm not on any additional medication but I did get Complete Pathological Response to chemo. Yay. Should be over the moon apparently. My odds are good. Whatever.... I'll let my friends feel the joy whereas I feel nothing but trepidation.
I've had a semi constant pain in my ankle for a week now but I don't remember rolling it. I also have stiff knee and ankle joints and sore feet in the morning but they get better quickly as I move around. The ankle pain remains the same all day. Of course, all I can think of is bone mets but I feel like such a hypochondriac.
Is joint pain normal when NOT on any treatment? How long do I give a persistent pain in a joint before running to the oncologist blubbering about bone mets? Could this be a symptom of menopause? (in which case - f**k you cancer, I hadn't finished making babies yet).
I finished 16 rounds of dose dense chemo in the middle of April and had a bilateral mastectomy a month ago. I'm triple negative so I'm not on any additional medication but I did get Complete Pathological Response to chemo. Yay. Should be over the moon apparently. My odds are good. Whatever.... I'll let my friends feel the joy whereas I feel nothing but trepidation.
I've had a semi constant pain in my ankle for a week now but I don't remember rolling it. I also have stiff knee and ankle joints and sore feet in the morning but they get better quickly as I move around. The ankle pain remains the same all day. Of course, all I can think of is bone mets but I feel like such a hypochondriac.
Is joint pain normal when NOT on any treatment? How long do I give a persistent pain in a joint before running to the oncologist blubbering about bone mets? Could this be a symptom of menopause? (in which case - f**k you cancer, I hadn't finished making babies yet).
