bone pain - food for thought

[Guest guest]

G'day everyone,

I had an interesting conversation with a friend yesterday who is the unit

manager of a cardiac/oncology ward. We were discussing bone pain as my

brother in law has just been dx with multiple myeloma. She was saying that

there is a theory (but not proven), that the bone pain that occurs in the

leukaemias etc is due to the chemo working and as a result, the bone marrow

" expands " so to speak, once it has room when the bad cells are removed and

that is why the devastating bone pain occurs.

As my CML was dx very early, I haven't experienced this pain, but for others

who were quite advanced, I wonder if this may be the cause?

Some questions to ask:

If you did experience severe bone pain following treatment, where you dx

with major symptoms ie spleen and liver or other symptoms which lead to the

dx?

Has the bone pain decreased in time?

Regards,

from Downunder