Well ladies it’s been 9 days since our last post ?. So here’s me 17 weeks post rads. Few blips en-route but getting there in this never ending flippin journey. Docs app and check up all ok and give it 12 months!! What??? Really?? How’s all you getting on my simply breast friends ?. Will have jempd in here in 15 days times and what a journey she has had but that light is now there. Just thought it would be nice to catch up so we can help others who may read our thread from the beginning and to see hopefully how far we have come. And you know what we have all come a long long way since our first post in here. Energy levels are increasing, moods getting better, gremlins not so busy thank goodness, hot flushes same, sleep same lack of. Hope your all doing good and speak soon . Jempd hope your first rads when all ok and not as bad as anticipated. X
Hello all
Ive not posted here recently, but recovery from rads has been gradual and progressing OK, my only gripe really is shoulder and arm pain, which seems to have hit after the daily ‘up arm’ positioning during treatment, and which isn’t really going away, and wakes me in the night sometimes…
I had a Radiology Consultant appointment today, the discharge review…she gave me some useful information regarding the state of boob! Rads finished on 24th August but I’m still a fetching pinky/sludgy brown, (I was actually very pink from the first early days after op, and never really faded, got darker during rads though ! ) She said it was because I was fair skinned, I’m quite freckly…also she told me I had a fair bit of subcutaneous swelling in the operated breast,…
I didn’t know that at all, I’d had a Therapeutic Mammoplasty on 29th May and thought that was going to be the shape forever ! But no, currently it is actually swollen, and that accounts for it’s feeling heavy, too…and here was me thinking that was just down to rads…?
So in a twelve month or so, it should have gone down and tissues will soften, and I will likely then need a chicken fillet…!
So, subcutaneous swelling as opposed to a seroma… it is a sort of oedema, apparently. (Great, it can be a partner for my Lymph - oedema !! ?)
And as for the shoulder and arm pain, yes, it’s probably down to the rads positioning, but she also admitted that Letrozole wouldn’t be helping, but that exercise would definitely help. So I shall grit my teeth and lift that arm…also continue with the fluid intake as it’s really important, everyone…
Hope everyone is progressing nicely, and with minimal SEs…that bell sound seems rather distant now … and welcome to all those who’ve yet to hear it …
xx