Ok, seems like a weird one. I have had a recurring pain in my elbow for a few months. Now I've had tennis elbow before in my right arm and it's a bit like that but sharper and in my left arm. I know there are lymph nodes in the elbow so was worried OC could have gone there because, when I asked onc where cancer was likely to recur, she said my shoulders.
Am I just going nuts?
Candy x
Hi. I’ve never heard of that as a location but it’s a crazy disease. You might want to ask for a CA125 test and/ or X-ray or CT scan to put your mind at peace.
Hi, I also have a tennis elbow for the first time ever in my life. It is all the typical symptoms and progression according to my physio. I think we can not under estimate the impact of treatment and chemo on parts of our bodies that used to work well as well as of course age. generally my joints are far more creaky than before (Avastin). Tennis elbow takes at least 3 months of treatment? I would see a physio and mention it to your oncologist if I was you.
Hi Bobbylynn
Chest and neck nodes here as well as nodes in many other areas....feel absolutely fine and hope you do too?🙂xx
Hi, I have chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy from 2011 & 2013 treatments (Carbo-Taxol both times + Avastin in 2013), developed a tennis elbow 18 months ago for which I had acupuncture and it subsided....but about 6 months ago the left hand tingling and numbness started to worsen. Thinking it was just aging on top of long term CIPD I tolerated it but eventually chatted to the GP Practice pharmacist when she rang about my lymphoedema tights. My answers to her questions made her suggest a GP appointment who referred me to GP physio who I saw this morning and she confirmed, that on top of the CIPD the Median Nerve is 'tense' (given exercises) and I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; now referring me to orthopaedics for the little operation to release the carpal tunnel bit. Could your symptoms be anything like this?
No idea how long this wait will be, but its a relief to know the causes and what I can do and what can be done by others to reduce it all.
Warmest wishes. x
I rarely contribute any more because I decided to refuse further treatment last year, since it wasn't going to extend my life, and people don't really want to hear that. The cancer is in my lymph nodes, has been since 2019, after my surgery in 2018. I then had chemo, which shrank some nodes,then a PARP which slowed it down, but only temporarily. And that's lymph nodes in the chest, armpit, thoracic spine and pelvic areas, so I'm still here and functioning (not as well as I used to though). I think I've done pretty well given I was stage 4b at diagnosis over six years ago. If I start to have serious problems like not being able to walk, I may try some weekly paclitaxol to see if it helps reduce those issues, but not otherwise - I have a couple of other co morbidities as well, and I am 73 so that's influenced my decision. But I don't think you're at the end stage yet by any means, and apparently, neither am I according to the hospice nurse who visits periodically🤗
Candy, the only way to know for sure is by having a scan, or at least seeing the oncologist. All I do know is, post chemo, all sorts of things don't work like they used to, including teeth, of which I lost 5, they just crumbled away after treatment, so I think what Itha says may be a factor, but you won't knoiw without seeing someone about it.
Oh thanks so much, everyone. I'll take it all on board. The long-term effects of chemo are not really given much press but I've had issues with my teeth and now my joints, which have always been fine. Referred to physio for ankle but need a new referral to cover the knee because they don't do both at same time - evidently not heard the thigh bone's connected to the hip bone, etc. Sorry not able to reply to you all right now but am in throes of moving house and friend says we need to have packed way more boxes by now. xx
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