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What Causes Lower Back Pain When Undergoing Chemotherapy?
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My mother has been on chemotherapy for the last six years and most recently has been give Navelbine. While on Navelbine she developed excruciating lower back pain that she says feels like spasms and like her back is breaking. She also has leg weakness. She's been off Navelbine for three weeks, but the lower back pain persists. What is causing this and what do we do to alleviate it? Thank you.
My mother has been on chemotherapy for the last six years and most recently has been give Navelbine. While on Navelbine she developed excruciating lower back pain that she says feels like spasms and like her back is breaking. She also has leg weakness. She's been off Navelbine for three weeks, but the lower back pain persists. What is causing this and what do we do to alleviate it? Thank you.
Wed, 19 Feb 2014
It looks to me that either your mother is having vertebral spine fracture or nerve compression. Both are possible as due to chemotherapy bones becomes very weather. I would recommend you to get an Mri scan of your spine. This will give us some Idea about your disease and we can manage disease according to that. If spine fracture than bad rest calcium and if nerve compression than methylcobal and gabapentin.
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