Pain in shin

I would make an amateurish guess that you don’t have it in your sternum or shin, what with your low irradiated PSA level of 0.1.

Are you able to get back to your Oncologist amid the current Covid (virtually exclusive) Health Service crisis?

Another oncology consultation with a bone scan should tell you definitively if there is any metastasis, and if not, you can resign yourself (like everyone else here) to put all your ongoing ailments down to old age!

Best of luck.

Cheers, John.

P.S. My severely disabled father-in-law recently saw a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon within a few days for hip replacement surgery, which is happening on 7th April. If he hadn’t paid fifteen grand he’d still be on the waiting list of the Covid Health Service to see a consultant, with a date for surgery up to eighteen months hence.

Who pays for these surgeons’ training? The Covid (née National) Health Service!

Sorry, I am going to disagree with the others. As far as I understand it, you are still on Zoladex so that will be keeping your PSA low. You were diagnosed with oligomets so it is entirely possible that a tiny cluster of cancer cells in your shin is causing some discomfort or that a cluster in your spine or similar is causing transferred pain. The tumour in your sternum showed up on the previous bone scan but that doesn't mean that there weren't already tiny tumours settling elsewhere. Having said all that, it should be some reassurance to you that mets to the shin are quite rare so it is more likely to be an exercise issue, small tear or shin splinters (do you do a lot of running or hiking?) ... or even muscular pain caused by the Zoladex?