Hi all,
A family member has cancer that has metastasized to a small section on her hip bone. She is probably the most doubting, apprehensive, "what if" person I know. I say that with respect, but it's the truth.
Let me briefly explain what happened when she was in hospital;
She was admitted in a general ward, NOT a specialist ward due to hospital being so busy. She was given terrible care with regards to not treating, but simply shoving liquid morphine down her neck to treat symptoms, which caused her a huge blockage that had to be cleared which was very painful.
Then began the mental torture. She kept getting given increasingly bad news, by a general surgeon who doesn't even deal with cancer. On both occasions, she was told without any family around, and with no positivity or offer of treatment. He told her she had a few days, but was then interrupted by a specialist Nurse who was angry about this, and took over the treatment immediately.
From looking at the scans, it's minor in two areas, and not everywhere, so they are confident they can treat it now.
Moving on from that aspect, and onto my reason for this post. I believe from seeing her apprehension, that she now has TMS from the fear/panic of a recurrence of severe pain she once encountered. She is scared of going to sleep at night, as apparently a small jolt is enough to cause excruciating pain, yet it doesn't seem to through the day.. Also, she had a very heavy lifeless left leg, but this has since moved to the right leg! When I quizzed her about this strange turn of events, she got mad and was unable to answer why her weak leg has now become her strong leg!
When she had the excruciating pain earlier, that seemingly came out of nowhere, I finally managed to convince her to breath steadily with intent, and to focus internally, shunting oxygen/blood to the area of pain. She claims it didn't help, but it was VERY evident that it dropped the pain by 50%+, before even getting medication.
I guess to summarize; I'm asking if anyone here, or anyone they know, have had similar? According to some research, cancer shouldn't really cause much pain, if at all, especially if they are in bed. I suspect this pain is coming from being petrified of any movements, and that being still in bed for weeks has caused muscle depletion and the tension from the unknowns is the real reason for the pain.
A family member has cancer that has metastasized to a small section on her hip bone. She is probably the most doubting, apprehensive, "what if" person I know. I say that with respect, but it's the truth.
Let me briefly explain what happened when she was in hospital;
She was admitted in a general ward, NOT a specialist ward due to hospital being so busy. She was given terrible care with regards to not treating, but simply shoving liquid morphine down her neck to treat symptoms, which caused her a huge blockage that had to be cleared which was very painful.
Then began the mental torture. She kept getting given increasingly bad news, by a general surgeon who doesn't even deal with cancer. On both occasions, she was told without any family around, and with no positivity or offer of treatment. He told her she had a few days, but was then interrupted by a specialist Nurse who was angry about this, and took over the treatment immediately.
From looking at the scans, it's minor in two areas, and not everywhere, so they are confident they can treat it now.
Moving on from that aspect, and onto my reason for this post. I believe from seeing her apprehension, that she now has TMS from the fear/panic of a recurrence of severe pain she once encountered. She is scared of going to sleep at night, as apparently a small jolt is enough to cause excruciating pain, yet it doesn't seem to through the day.. Also, she had a very heavy lifeless left leg, but this has since moved to the right leg! When I quizzed her about this strange turn of events, she got mad and was unable to answer why her weak leg has now become her strong leg!
When she had the excruciating pain earlier, that seemingly came out of nowhere, I finally managed to convince her to breath steadily with intent, and to focus internally, shunting oxygen/blood to the area of pain. She claims it didn't help, but it was VERY evident that it dropped the pain by 50%+, before even getting medication.
I guess to summarize; I'm asking if anyone here, or anyone they know, have had similar? According to some research, cancer shouldn't really cause much pain, if at all, especially if they are in bed. I suspect this pain is coming from being petrified of any movements, and that being still in bed for weeks has caused muscle depletion and the tension from the unknowns is the real reason for the pain.
