Postby kimlon » Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:32 pm
My husband has stage IV CC. He has a very large tumor in one lobe of his liver and a smaller one in the other lobe. Since last summer he has been getting a very severe pain with a very bad pulling sensation that starts at the botton of his rib cage on the right side, the pain remains there as it radiates to the left side, same place as the right. Then the pain moves to his back on the right side and gradually goes away. This pain has lasted anywhere from a half hour to over four hours and can vary in intensity. His oncologist has sent him for many tests including a CT scan, a sonagram and a endoscopy, the only thing that showed up was some bile in his stomach. The cancer has never gotten any worse since he started chemo, it has either improved or stayed the same over the past year and a half. We have started referring to the pain as an attack as they come without warning or any kind of consistancy. When he gets an attactk it is usually at night and he has never had more than one in a days time. The doctors have not been able to come up with a DX but chemo usually stops the pains. Has anyone else ever had anything like this?? The oncologist says it doesn't act like cancer pain but he has no other explanation. I should add that he had a colon resection in 2002 and gall bladder removed two weeks later. We were told then that he was cancer free, no need for chemo but needlees to say it came back four years later and it was stage IV when the found it.