LD recon boob being pulled towards armpit
LD recon boob being pulled towards armpit I am experiencing a very strange visual and physical thing in my LD recon boob. I am just over 2 weeks post op.
Where the flap edge joins nearest the middle of my chest, it has always looked a bit puckered with the breast below it hanging quite low and in a hard ridge outwards towards my armpit. As time goes on this pucker has become deep and dimple-like . If I clench my armpit, this pulls the wound edge even further into my breast towards my armpit - this also happens when I do my arm exercises.
Has anyone else had this?
To me it looks like something needs cutting to release it (aargh that sound awful!).
I have heard of cording - but thought this was linked between the elbow and the armpit - and when I am doing the exercises I do feel tension in my arm.
It is beginning to get a bit uncomfortable.
Hi Anita
I hope that you are ok…I have a similar thing happening, because they use the back muscle I think it thinks it is still in your back and mine keeps going into spasm…it is quite painful the more the swelling goes down the tighter mine has become the more I excercise the worse it seems to have gotten…also when I do the excercises it is quite tight in my back…I also get a bit breathless with it but then I am just over 4 weeks down the line I hope it improves it is a real drag at night I have to get up 2 or 3 times as it is like cramp in my boob…
do you have news on when you get your results??? I am starting chemo on Friday YUK!!!
love Lucy
Hi Lucy It’s good to hear from you!
That’s reassuring to hear that you have the same - that has been the outcome for everything I have experienced so far. You worry that what you are going thru is not right or odd, only to find out from this site that others have had the same or similar think - thank god I logged onto this site.
Mine is the same, as the swelling goes down I am getting a tight feeling across my boob and in my back. I hope the swelling will go down more - it still seems big and looks a bit like a plateau at the moment - and I have a phantom nipple!
You must be anxious about Friday - I hope it goes OK. What chemo are you having - I’m not an expert but have been reading stuff on this site in readiness.
Take care
Anita x
Hi Anita
The swelling will go down, I never thought mine would and I thought that my consultant was just telling me that because he thought that is what I wanted to hear, but mine has nearly gone…it is still very numb under the arm and at the back of my arm it is very dry and feels like paper…but when I first came out of the op the swelling in my arm chest and back was horrendous…i thought if it is going to stay like this what an earth have I done, thankfully it has started to go down and looks someway normal now, I think it takes a while but I guess we are just impatient…I am having that FEC chemo and from what I have been reading I am not looking forward to it…but the sooner it is started the sooner it is over…you just nearly get over one thing and then have to start another I am looking forward to this time next year when I can hopefully look back on it as a distant memory…
Any news on your results???
keep your chin up love as always
Lucy
Results Sorry, thought I had said about the results fiasco - perhaps it was on another topic - I seem to be using the site a lot at the moment.
Had appointment on Friday where I thought I would be given my results but all they did was change my dressings. The nurse looked into it and gave me another appoinment at my local hospital where the surgeon does a 2-weekly clinic. I will be having any further treatment at my local hospital and the results were ‘in the post’. It was awful to be ready to hear the results and not get anything after a very sleepless night.
So this Thursday is results day, but that is not with the Oncologist so probably will not get treatment plan then. Seeing a BCN as well so will make sure I have answers to all my questions on Thursday.
I am feeling very well, just sore and swollen. Let me know how you get on Friday - I will post my results and no doubt lots of questions too - I know the professionals can give lots of info, but its just not the same as hearing it from those who have been thru it.
Anita
x
Hi Anita
glad that you are feeling well that is a good start to go on…I’m sure your results will be fine…but it is a worry all the same…at one point I thought I had everything going but that is what it does to you and then you have to get a grip…I am starting to take control of my life at this moment not so sure after chemo though I hope I wont be back to square one…will let you know what happens…good or bad…
keep your chin up
love Lucy
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