[Sandy H]

Your report sounds good to me. Why don't you wait until you are healed from your surgery and see how you feel. You may have to do some stretching exercises in physical therapy to loosen up that area. There are lots of nerves around the arm area, having a port I am sure may change how some of those nerves act. Having skin mets and lymphedema in the chest area from time to time gives me many different sensations and some time pain in the fat pad as they call it between the arm and chest. I believe it is called cord syndrome or a tightening of the fat pad. I have been through lymphedema treatment a few times and have had that cord worked on by a lymphedema specialist. One does not have to have lymphedema to have arm pain. If this does not resolve after you are healed from surgery I would at least get a consult for some physical therapy. I just had a friend after 8 years of a bc diagnose, with no recurrence, complain about arm pain and chest discomfort. She had a lumpectomy 8 years ago with radiation. She had been to physical therapy and still had pain. I suggested she see my lymphedema specialist which she did and now she is doing fine or I should say is much happier, she has daily stretching she does and feels so much better. I am not a doctor or even a nurse but this maybe something you will want to think about. Wishing you well. hugs, Sandy