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Becky · 05-14-2007, 06:34 PM

Dear Erin

Like Kim, I have horses (4 at home) and do all the heavy work. As for weights, I have heard to start out slow (low weight and not a lot of repetitions) and work up. Unlike the past - where you would be told no way, the new thinking (like roma said) is that it helps the lymph fluid return to circulation. But be careful and go slow. Never exhaust your affected arm with too much, too soon. Don't go with the no pain, no gain rationale. I had 2 fingers swell (but it subsided and never returned) from packing my house for a move a year ago. The unpacking of the kitchen did me in with all the repetitive movements of unwrapping and putting away (but it was too much in a week's period and way different from starting a cautious work out program). I work out with light weights now but only to improve running times.

Take care

05-14-2007, 06:34 PM	#4
Becky Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Stockton, NJ Posts: 4,179	Dear Erin Like Kim, I have horses (4 at home) and do all the heavy work. As for weights, I have heard to start out slow (low weight and not a lot of repetitions) and work up. Unlike the past - where you would be told no way, the new thinking (like roma said) is that it helps the lymph fluid return to circulation. But be careful and go slow. Never exhaust your affected arm with too much, too soon. Don't go with the no pain, no gain rationale. I had 2 fingers swell (but it subsided and never returned) from packing my house for a move a year ago. The unpacking of the kitchen did me in with all the repetitive movements of unwrapping and putting away (but it was too much in a week's period and way different from starting a cautious work out program). I work out with light weights now but only to improve running times. Take care __________________ Kind regards Becky Found lump via BSE Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45 1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side) 2 micromets to sentinel node Stage 2A left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg lumpectomies 9/7/04 4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol Used Leukine instead of Neulasta 35 rads on right side only 4/05 started Tamoxifen Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations Oophorectomy 8/05 Started Arimidex 9/05 Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06 Arimidex Only Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia NED 18 years! Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"