My husband has gone down hill for two years. He has a lot of pain in his back shoulders and hip. He has lost fourth pounds. He cannot walk without a cane and falls often. He has very high blood pressure even though he is on three blood pressure meds. He has no appetite and has been unable to function sexually for over ten years. He has sweats throughout the day. His blood tests have come back normal but his chest xray showed a shadow. The dr wanted him to wait six weeks and take another chest xray which he did. We are still waiting for results. He also has adrenal tumor. What could be wrong?
Quite a lot of possibilities. First on the back pain a list of some of the highlights. The spinal nerves that go to the back, also go to the sexual organs. Also, cancers can do quite a lot of things BUT they grow fairly fast so, a cancer causing problems for 10 years seems very unlikely. An adrenal tumor that is NOT cancer can go for many years affecting blood pressure, giving sweats and making someone feel very uncomfortable, BUT would not invade bone and spine.Therefore ONE thing is unlikely to be the cause of all the issues, and they didn't all come on at one time 10 yrs ago. Back pain can be one cause (see linkage) and other problems could come from adrenal, lung, or other tumor or cancer. Measuring adrenal hormones and other simple blood tests can augment imaging studies(which should also include the adrenals AND chest)