Painful Back Pain Post Treatment

My dad completed treatment for SC/NSC Lung Cancer last fall.  Shortly after, he began to have horrible back pain.  It has not subsided, although all scans continue to show no disease in the area.  We have been to ONC, PT, and any other doctor that can help us figure this out.  No one has.

 Please help if any of you have had this.  The pain can disappear, but typically comes back in the evening, and moves from the back to the front under the ribcage on the right side.  Please, please someone help.  This is the time he should be enjoying life while the disease is not there, not trying to figur eout what's causing the pain.

 Thank you.

My wife's situation is similar. About three week's after last chemo treatment (March) she started with a pain in her back on the right side, under the ribs, then extended to her side and front. It's been constant and expressed as stabbing under the ribs, sensitivity of the skin, tightness like very tight clothing. An ER physician thought it was shingles but there was no rash and she's been treated by a neurologist, rheumatologist, a couple pain management people and has been prescribed with Tegretol, Neurontin, lidocaine patches, and has received two spinal steroid injections with not a whole lot of success. No diagnosis yet. I hope you have learned something about your dad's condition. jaytod

On 4/26/2007 Nicksdad wrote:

My dad completed treatment for SC/NSC Lung Cancer last fall.  Shortly after, he began to have horrible back pain.  It has not subsided, although all scans continue to show no disease in the area.  We have been to ONC, PT, and any other doctor that can help us figure this out.  No one has.

 Please help if any of you have had this.  The pain can disappear, but typically comes back in the evening, and moves from the back to the front under the ribcage on the right side.  Please, please someone help.  This is the time he should be enjoying life while the disease is not there, not trying to figur eout what's causing the pain.

 Thank you.