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Good news @Deanne.  As I have had arthritis in my hips and knees for some years and now the feet and shoulders are joining the clan I can feel your pain.
Thinking of you @kmakm - hope you have had some good reassuring news by now.
Hugs to all going through the added stresses - don't we get tired of tests ?  Those little niggles come back to haunt us at every turn. - but we are still here.   :D

@kmakm 
Here's hoping your news is a niggle only!  Your poor body has been through the mill and it will retaliate every now and again and say I don't like this and annoy!
Take care and fingers crossed

Good to keep busy! All good with my situation. Went to the physio this morning and she had the bone scan report. Nothing but some mild arthritis in my spine. The spot on my pelvis is nothing to worry about also.

My mystery pain is from 3 damaged tendons and should improve over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully your news will be good and soon. It really is the waiting that makes it so hard! xxx

Thanks @Deanne. Keeping busy. The French exchange student is leaving today so I'm making the long trek to the airport. If I haven't heard by tomorrow morning I'll call my breastcare nurse. How are you doing with your mystery pain?

Doing my best @Shakalker! K xox

@kmakm sending big hugs and best wishes. Don’t let that 1% get you down. 

I was told the results would be sent through to my doctors that afternoon @kmakm. I am therefore trying to be reassured that nobody has rung me. I had phone calls the next day when the CT scan showed ‘something’ and they wanted to do the bone scan to check. 

Hopefully you will will hear from your breastcare nurse today. If not can you give her a call? It will settle that 1% niggle and let you rest easier again. You will feel so much better when you know for absolutely sure there is nothing sinister lurking. Fingers crossed for you. xxx

Don't know @Deanne! The BS asked my breastcare nurse to ring me. I'm 99% sure it's nothing sinister, and almost certainly they were just being thorough. There's just that 1% niggle...

Thanks @youngdogmum. K xox

Ooh I wish I knew the answer 😞 
Hoping it's absolutely nothing Kate x

How soon do you get your results @kmakm? I think it is pretty normal for us to start examining everything over and over in our minds and looking for signs that might say one way or the other. I had my bone scan last Friday and will finally get results tomorrow morning. It is doing my head in to stop from looking at the images and googling. I even worried because the lady who did my scan seemed to avoid me at the end. Did she find something? Etc etc.

I have no idea what is standard in these scans and I actually had my eyes shut for most of mine and am really not sure where it scanned. It does take a long time and my back was extra sore the next day from laying still on a hard ‘bed’ for so long. 

I am trying to concentrate on the good points, at least they are being thorough and taking our pain and concern seriously etc. Hopefully we will both hear soon that all is good (at least cancer wise!).

Thinking of you. Take care. xxx

Thank you all. It was a very long and tedious day. The CT is so quick and the bone scan is so looong.

I had a bit of a side effect with the CT. As that hot pee feeling subsided I began to feel quite nauseous and sort of heavy. Not a pleasant sensation at all. So a nurse was called and she didn't want me standing up so I was wheeled on a trolley back to the main room. Embarrassment!

I'm having a bit of a worry now though. My BS ordered left chest (where my pain is) and abdo, and then said, no, just left chest. Today they did a full body scan, then the chest from both sides and then my abdomen from both sides. Is that a standard bone scan? Or did they see something suss and go back for another look?