I have noticed i occasionally get shooting/stabbing pains in my non cancerous breast (as well as my cancerous breast). I am currently 3 FEC’s into a 4 FEC/4 TAX regime.
Has anyone else experienced this at all. I will mention it to my ONC next week of course.
Hello,
I did - and got really worried as my cancer breast also hurt. I kept mentioning it to onc and he kept telling me not to worry and that it was just the chemo. I convinced myself it was cancer as it felt like the same pains I was getting in the tumour area - but had both breasts removed after chemo and there wasn’t anything in the good boob.
Definitely mention if to have your worries put at ease - but I wouldn’t worry too much!
x
Thanks Sandytoes…yes its worrying.
May I ask you why you made the decision to have a bilateral mx…was it just to remove the worry? Its something i have discussed with my hubby but he seems to think why if nothing is wrong with it.
PS: Lovely to see your face and not your sandy toes! loooool
I had to have a mastectomy on my left breast and decided that I wanted to have my right breast removed too as I wanted to do all I could to minimise the risk of getting a new cancer and having to go through all of this again. I also thought I would feel happier being balanced and symmetrical - which I do. I will have the same reconstruction on both sides - hopefully resulting in a symmetrical pair. At the moment I have expandable implants in and they look the same with very neat scars.
I didn’t have both breasts removed because of the pain in the healthy one! Just thought I would mention that I was worried, but know that there was nothing in there as had it removed anyway.
x
I too get some pain in my healthy breast.
It’s really intersting you got both breasts removed Sandytoes, as someone I know had her healthy breast removed after three years of having had breast cancer. She is now 11 years after initial dignosis and is free of any form of cancer. She wasn’t high risk of reoccurance, just wanted her healthy breast removed for balance sake and the surgeon eventually agreed. Was it difficult to “convince” the surgeon to do it? Have you been a high risk patient? Are you HER2 +++ or anything like that? I hope you don’t mind me asking.
Did you have breasts removed in one operation?
Christine xxx
Hi Christine,
I am HER2+++ - but that didn’t really affect my decision as it was a new primary that I was trying to avoid. I realise I still have to beat this one! I’m not a BRCA gene carrier but as I’m young and hoping that I will get past this and go on to live a long life, there was still a chance of getting a new primary in my other breast and to be honest, the thought of being lopsided was more upsetting for me than having both removed and built back up together and I wanted to do all I could to minimise my risk of having to go through this all again.
My surgeon originally said she would prefer to concentrate on the unhealthy breast rather than risk complications on my healthy side delaying the treatment, but it didn’t take much convincing and I had both removed at the same time - so just one operation. I am having delayed reconstruction as I had to have radiotherapy, but had temporary expandable implants put in as I wasn’t happy at the thought of being flatchested. I haven’t had them pumped up yet but am currently a B cup (used to be a DD) and am very happy with the result (although looking forward to getting them pumped up a bit! 
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As I had chemo first it gave me lots of time to research options, get second opinions etc and I am very happy that the decision I made is right for me - but we all differ!