Any diabetes related issues?  Does diabetes run in your family?  This could
have been reactive hypoglycemia.  Some folks who go on to have diabetes have
hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) episodes, which this may have been.  You
might want to ask for a test for diabetes.  Good luck.

Kaye,
I don't know what to say! If I forget to take my celebrex, I remember
by early after noon when I am in discomfort. I don't know whatelse to
say you left me speakless. Hugs...alex

Hello Kaye,
I'm so sorry you are experiencing these things.....can't even imagine how
disconcerting it must be, when you hold concerns that aren't being directly
addressed by your physician(s).  I hope that it's something benign and
totally treatable, or better yet---that it never happens again.
Hugs,
Barb

Kaye Wrote:
   I think you are right.  My suggestion is your share that with the
newsgroup -- which, would help others to take notice of their records as
well.
Here is the post
Kaye,
   I too, have had severe back pain. Enough, one time, to send me to
emergency in an ambulance. The back spasms made it impossible to get out
of bed and I could breath only in gasps between spasms. It had been the
second episode of the spasms. The first one, was in the lower back, it
was the worst pain I have ever had until the second one, the ER trip
pain was in the shoulderblade part of the back. I have had 3 back exrays
in the last 2 months. First one found better than usual calcium for my
age and nothing to report. Second one found arthritic activity in the
lower back. The third one found bone spurs in the lower back. As you
might remember I had to change Ins Companies the first of July. The new
Onc. said the back pain was probably bone mets in the back. I did have a
bone scan earlier and had mets in the fronts of three ribs and in the
back of the head. One of the ribs actually hurts all the way around
right now. The extreme pain is gone, but after I stand for a while I can
feel them trying to return. Thank G-D for Vicodan..

   Then you were talking about the Records. I went to the records dept.
to get my records to take to the new Oncologist. One of them was for a
Ct scan. Supposedly for me. It had my name, almost. No middle initial
was used. It was the very one my Onc read to me, at my last visit with
him, about a questionable area in the pelvic area. It also said I had
been admitted to the hospital on a certain date, which I had not, and
that it had been done on a different date than mine, and that I was born
in 1916, which I was born in 1941. They insisted it was mine as it
referenced a ct done in January, which I did have. But as you said what
kind of record keeping is this? It may be mine but it just as well might
not be..Who knows...

   I guess I am talking about all three of your posts. I too had
Lobular and now my mets are looking like bone spurs. Same as you. I get
an MRI of the back tomorrow. I hope something can be settled. But Kaye
do you have mets? I don't remember you actually saying you did.
   All in all, as I have switched to Kaiser I am finding it refreshing
that I am getting things done as quickly as I have. In the first 34 days
with them I have had an exray of back, met my Onc, met my PCP, had CT
scan getting an MRI Fri.and starting chemo next Tue.. That is the bad
part. I had been given Arimidex for the high Tumer marker, Old Onc let
it ride, tho the markers rose alot. New Onc said, "Well no sense taking
the Arimidex obviously it isn't working"..Chemo is my only choice. I
will be getting Taxotere. They have risen to 2140, or so. As you stated
some Dr's have ordered tests while the markers are still in the one
hundreds not wait until the 2100's like mine did. Mine gave me the same
load of bulls--t. Treat for 3 years or wait 1 year and treat 2 years
with the same end result.. Lots of hope that gives us right?  This new
one at least didn't try to feed me that line, yet... Well It sounds like
we have several of the same symptoms, Tho I don't have lymphedema..I
hope you get the treatment you need. You deserve to get the best as do I...
    I am taking Celebrex, but just 1 a day. Are you taking more????
Isn't it terribly hard on your stomach?
   Good Luck, I will continue to read your posts on Alt. BC...Pat from
Apple Valley, CA...
PS: Kaye I have not been tested for HER as far as I know. But I will
inquire. I did have a PET scan when the numbers started to go up last
year, but non since. Also what is poly-chemo?

Kaye,
   You know this exact thing happened to me also. This is getting
weird..I had gone into the kitchen and got suddenly very disoriented and
had to grab the counter to steady myself..I must have looked pretty
strange as my DH, who never notices anything, asked what had happened to
me. Only happened once, tho...Pat from Apple Valley, CA