Arm pain and dr response

[Blair77]

Mike had an X-ray on Wednesday of his shoulder due to increasing pain. There has been no call back as to what is the cause. Do most people get responses to their tests quickly? This doctors office seems to be really slow on the response. I’m wondering if this is the norm?

[Tall_Allen]

X-ray may show arthritis, not cancer (unless there is a VERY large met).

[Blair77 in reply to Tall_Allen]

I’ll let you know what they find out. I feel like I’m always waiting for some result. After the PSA rising to 9 after 2 weeks on Zytiga( started at end of June) they switched him to Xtandi( started on August 1) and PSA dropped to 1 after 6 weeks as of 9/12. However the shoulder keeps hurting....

[Tall_Allen in reply to Blair77]

Probably not a met then. Is he taking a bone restoring medicine?

[Blair77 in reply to Tall_Allen]

Yes,he takes xgeva. His calcium was high 10.7 at the end of July but it’s back to normal according to his metabolic panel last week.

[Joes-dad in reply to Blair77]

Was he put on Xgeva because his calcium hit 10.7 or did it go up to that once he started Xgeva?

[Blair77 in reply to Joes-dad]

No, he’s been on xgeva since dx in 2017.

[Stegosaurus37]

How quick you get a response depends on how busy the radiologists' workload is. My X-ray results were available in a couple of hours because the radiologist was having a slack period. You don't say how old Mike is, but Tall Allen is right; the X-ray won't show cancer mats, but will show arthritis. In my case I thought my hip pain was probably arthritis since my last bone scan hadn't shown any mets in that location. That was right and ibuprofin is working. Pain in my right scapular was caused by the cancer (bone scan showed mets there) and radiation took care of that. Also ibuprofin and/or naproxin will work against arthritis pain but won't help against cancer pain. To treat the pain you have to know what's causing it.

Give your sawbones a couple of more days to get back to you with results then call his/her office and bug them.

[j-o-h-n]

MD = Major Delay....

Good Luck and Good Health.

j-o-h-n Sunday 09/30/2018 6:37 PM EDT

[Hidden in reply to j-o-h-n]

I thought it meant mucho dinero.

[j-o-h-n in reply to Hidden]

sí señor,

Good Luck and Good Health.

j-o-h-n Sunday 09/30/2018 7:08 PM EDT

[Blair77]

X-ray showed nothing. The doctors office still hasn’t called, but the X-ray report finally showed up last night on “ my chart”.