Bones

I had the phone call yesterday morning to make an appointment for me to have a bone density scan, the registrar I saw when I had my oncology appointment last week said it would be a good idea as I take the drug letrozole which makes my arthritis very painful, and as it can affect the bone density I have to have a scan to find out if any damage has been done. So on the 5th December I shall once again be heading off to the hospital, I have to attend the rheumotology department so hopefully that means the scan is not an MRI which has been slightly worrying me, the thought of being slowly pushed head first into a tunnel fills me with horror, I am claustrophobic, I could not even put on the kind of motor cycle helmet that covers the whole head! I am hypermobile, or double jointed as it used to be known, so my joints have been very overused for the simple reason that to me it is normal to bend in a certain way and I don`t always realise that not everybody can do it! As a consequence I have arthritis in quite a number of my joints now, due to overuse, so I am in constant pain. When the oncologist said to look out for new pains I was a bit worried as I have new pains all the time, I never know where a pain will strike next, and I can be in pain for a few days or so and then it will improve, until the next time!