I feel for you awaiting the results to learn what that pain really is.
The same thoughts were running through my head when my shoulder pain
started a few months ago, and it was one of the hardest times I've ever
been through. Please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you,
as always.

Jackie

marlapence wrote:
>
> This morning at 7 a.m. they shipped me into the tube for the long-
> awaited MRI to determine what is causing this monstrous back pain.
> Results should be back by Friday or Monday. The other tests have
> narrowed down the possibilities to metastatic cancer, arthritis or a
> compression fracture in the L-3 area of my lower back. Don't know
> which is the worse diagnosis....metastatic disease can be treated
> with chemotherapy, and IF the chemotherapy works, the pain will go
> away. The big question there is the IF, and the other side of that
> coin is just not acceptable.
>
> But, since there's nothing they can do about arthritis or a
> compression fracture except give me pain pills....those aren't
> really the greatest things either. I'm hoping that it's one of
> those, though, and when winter weather is gone, the pain will
> diminish. It seems aggravated by wet cold weather.
>
> The good news is that soon we will find the answer we've been
> looking for the past three months and can begin learning what, if
> anything, there is to do about it. And if what I have to do is
> learn to live with it, maybe they will have some real suggestions
> there. It was so bad yesterday that after less than 1/2 mile on the
> treadmill at the gym, my heart rate was up 30 points over normal, my
> legs were cramping and I was sweating....all at the same rate I
> usually do. But the jacuzzi did help somewhat.
>
> So please, keep this long-time survivor in your thoughts and
> prayers....
>
> We'll be gone this weekend when the results are due back, so may not
> know anything until we return from <GASP> Death Valley (is that a
> place to be while you wait for this news? ->)? )
>
> Marla
>
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