Any-one been given any advice about this?
How long do I have to wait before I can go swimming? I’ll be 4 weeks post-op on Thursday.
Thanks in advance.
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I had a mastectomy, and I think I was swimming less than a month afterwards. As long as your scar has healed I think it is OK. But check with a BC nurse first. If you are going to have chemo you will be advised not to swim during it, due to the danger of picking up infections. However, during rads it is OK to swim as long as your skin doesn’t get too sore and you wash the chlorine off straight away. I was told that I would probably have to stop swimming a couple of weeks into rads, but my skin was OK so I swam all the way through.
Thanks for that, RoadRunner.
I start rads on 17 March, nodes are clear so no chemo needed. I’ll ring BC nurse though just to check.
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