Sophy wrote:Hi Sara, your mothers pain might be due to radiation damage from rectal cancer treatment. I developed this about 5 years after radiation, my sacral ilia (join between pelvis and spine) started to fracture with normal life, no falls or accidents, and not repair itself. It was very painful and only lying down gave any relief.
I had hyperbaric oxygen treatment at the public hospital fot 8 weeks in 2016 and the fractures healed, I have very little pain now as the bone repaired itself. This was the only treatment for radiation necrosis that I could find.
For me the damage was visible on CT and MRI but bone density scan showed nothing abnormal.
I hope that this might help and that your mother finds some felief from her pain
Sophy
That is interesting Sophy. Years ago I needed bone transplant and this was taken from my hip. Following my radiation I have the almost identical bone pain where radiated. I assume expected internal bone damage is now slowly healing. The medical folk have been told.Sophy wrote:Hi Sara, your mothers pain might be due to radiation damage from rectal cancer treatment....
Sara!!!! wrote:Ok some update. On looking upon scans closely they think it's fracture of l4 . N that's causing the pain by pressing on spinal cord. Anyone has any idea about it?
LPL wrote:Sara!!!! wrote:Ok some update. On looking upon scans closely they think it's fracture of l4 . N that's causing the pain by pressing on spinal cord. Anyone has any idea about it?
I’ve had compression fractures in my lumbar spine and it caused a lot of pain, inkluding that my legs felt ’odd’.
Here is an artikel describing problems that can come from the area L4-L5.
https://www.spine-health.com/conditions ... al-segment
Sara!!!! wrote:LPL wrote:Sara!!!! wrote:Ok some update. On looking upon scans closely they think it's fracture of l4 . N that's causing the pain by pressing on spinal cord. Anyone has any idea about it?
I’ve had compression fractures in my lumbar spine and it caused a lot of pain, inkluding that my legs felt ’odd’.
Here is an artikel describing problems that can come from the area L4-L5.
https://www.spine-health.com/conditions ... al-segment
Hey what did they do about your fractures? Did your pain radiate to your leg too?
MissMolly wrote:Compression fractures can be treated with injections of a glue/cement like substance into the affected deficit of the vertebrae. The technique is called “vertebral kyroplasty” and is performed by an interventional radiologist.
Lumbar vertebrae can suffer fracture and loss of anterior height due to metastatic disease. I had a close friend who had lumbar fractures due to this sequelea.
Karen
MissMolly wrote:Compression fractures can be treated with injections of a glue/cement like substance into the affected deficit of the vertebrae. The technique is called “vertebral kyroplasty” and is performed by an interventional radiologist.
Lumbar vertebrae can suffer fracture and loss of anterior height due to metastatic disease. I had a close friend who had lumbar fractures due to this sequelea.
Karen
MissMolly wrote:Compression fractures can be treated with injections of a glue/cement like substance into the affected deficit of the vertebrae. The technique is called “vertebral kyroplasty” and is performed by an interventional radiologist.
Lumbar vertebrae can suffer fracture and loss of anterior height due to metastatic disease. I had a close friend who had lumbar fractures due to this sequelea.
Karen
Sara!!!! wrote:
We had a pet MRI last Monday due to the pain she was having and it did not mention anything regarding the l4 vertebra. If she had the fracture after that why was she having pain before? And if she already had fracture wudnt the pet have shown something?
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