Hi everyone, Hope you don't mind me posting here. my mum has secondary breast cancer which is in the spine, ribs and lymph nodes. She was only diagnosed with secondaries about 10weeks ago. At the moment she is on MST, orphmophine, 400mg of lyrica, and another drug for nerve pain plus a blood thinning tablet. tHis past few days one side of her body, her good side, as she calls it has swelled up and looks very puffy. Mum is putting it down to side effects of tablets, but I am a little worried. Her kidneys are not functioning like they should be and she has developed a nasty chest cough. There is also spots on her .lung but hasn't been told if it is further spread of the mets. I am posting her to see If any of you lovely ladies or gentlemen have every experienced this swelling and should we be worried at this stage. The district nurse is calling on Monday to do her bloods and we were going to discuss it then. Any advise greatly appreciated.
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