I am afraid I am another lurker, here everyday reading and I feel like I know most of you like I have dropped into your living rooms a time or two.
I have a question to ask about my husband and I know you all will help me. He has been having deep muscle pain across his lower back into his thighs and he tells me its not sciatica it is really different pain wise. Also, his shoulder and arm, and starting yesterday the other shoulder. I got very impatient with him and just kept reciting the doctor's phone number every time he complained, finally he made an appointment. I told him get your blood worked before you leave that place!
He come home and of course has NO answers to my questions, just that they told him to come in the AM for a fasting blood work, and he had an xray and the dr. told him he had beginning of arthritis in his hips, oh yeah and he needs a colonscopy because he is over fifty and has to go a urologist. Okay, I asked did he give you a physical, nope, never took off my shirt. Did you tell him you have your third cold of this winter and have that horrid cough? UMM, I forgot.
I am absorbing all this and wishing I had gone with him, if you are thinking what I am thinking......the symptoms in his lower extremities is consistant with prostate caner. My robust, construction working hubbie is in constant pain and it is sapping him, he comes home, eats dinner, sits in his chair and is in bed by 8. He has never had to pay attention to his health before, and yes his cholesterol is high, I figured that. I am wondering why the GP would send him off to specialists without a physical, he didn't so much as take his shirt off. I would like some feed back, also his younger sister was diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago, it is rampant in his family, all kinds too. Help, please guys.
Thanks Janna