Hi
Quick update. I had an mri today. Unfortunately it wasnt for my prostate, it was via the nhs and was to check lumber pelvis sacrum and tailbone. It was the only one i could get on the nhs as they wont give me a prostate mri due to normal psa and normal dre. As its the nhs it will be 2 to 6 weeks before i get the results. I plan on paying private for the prostate specific mri.
My tailbone still hurts and its now been 9 months since i first felt it. I dont know if im imagining it but the tip feels thicker. Its got a type of ball shape on the end thats well over a cm wide. When i look online that seems to be thicker than the norm. It still aches when i sit or lay down. No worse.
Im still getting the fullness in my rectum but only when im laid or sat down. It hasnt got any worse but no better. Im also still getting the hip and pelvis pain. Still cant get comfy when sleeping on my side.
I havent developed any new prostate symptoms, no problems peeing or ejaculating. No bowel issues either. I still have slight erectile dysfunction but ive had that over 5 years so nothing new. Like i said the fullness feeling in the rectum like im sat on a little ball is still there.
Things hadnt really changed in the 3 months from my last message . However, i have since developed 2 more bone pains in the last month. One is in my left humerus arm bone just above my bicep. This is a very strange pain in that i sometimes get a pain even when im not moving it. Its very painful in bed and they is absolutely no way i can lay on that side. This is the most worrying pain as it hurts without any movement and is very painful when i lay on it.
Ive also developed another bone pain in the top of the left ulna bone just in the bony bit just before the elbow joint. The ulna bone doesnt hurt until i use my arm in a certain way. Its also quite painful when i push the bone on that specific point.
From reading the internet, pc mets to bone can appear in any bone but the arm bones seem to get affected less than spine pelvis hips so those would be more unusual mets i guess. My 3 main bone pains, the long bone near shoulder, the left ulna bone near elbow and the coccyx.
If i do have the neuroendocrine highly aggressive nepc that doesnt show on psa ive read survival can be less than a year, but other than the 2 new bone pains mine hasnt got any worse in 9 months. Should i look at that as a good sign as im sure i would be much worse after at least 9 months of mets. That Humerus pain is worrying though, thats definitely a different pain to any of the others in that it hurts without movement or pressure.
also, what can actually be seen on mri of the lumbar, pelvis, sacrum and coccyx. Would a dexa bone scan have showed more.
Thanks
Edited by member 29 Apr 2025 at 21:32
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