Hi all,
I had my PICC fitted on 11 February just before cycle 2, the first week it hurt a lot but then settled down and I didn't know it was there. Until last week after having session number 3 of FEC on the Monday, on Friday I started to get pain in the top of my arm just above where the PICC is fitted to the point now where it's agony. My last two chemos have been delayed due to terribly low neutrophil levels (I was 0.1! Just before I was meant to start cycle 3 so it was delayed) this time I had to have a Neulasta injection which had some horrid side effects I was breathless all week, couldn't get out of bed so I haven't been moving my arm around to strain it in any way.
I went to my local A & E on sunday (spent 4 and a half hours waiting 😞 ) who took blood tests and ultrasound scans and they found nothing wrong. Has anyone else suffered in this way, it's really debilitating and even hurts to drive, I'm not sleeping as I normally lie on my right side where it is and now I can't. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I really hope it's not going to be like this forever as I have another 5 cycles of chemo to go and Herceptin for a year 😞