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lia · 11-06-2005, 02:46 PM

thanks everyone for your advice, i see the manual lymph drainage therapist on friday, so hope she will be able to help and show me some exercises to do myself. the swelling is on the underneath of my arm at the top so i m finding it hard to elevate it sufficiently especially at night in bed, it also seems to me that it is in my side too altho my doctor told me it wasnt lymphodema. I am worried that it s more sinister than just how i was sewn up after my 2 operations - wle and then mastectomy, i see my oncologist on wednesday for my next herceptin and will ask for an ultrasound or mri scan as i m worrying non stop at the moment. i did read of someone s lymphodema being brought on by regional recurrance , so wonder if that could be the case with me as i do have a lump in my armpit that my gp (family dr ) said was fatty tissue.

11-06-2005, 02:46 PM	#22
lia Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: uk Posts: 33	thankyou ! thanks everyone for your advice, i see the manual lymph drainage therapist on friday, so hope she will be able to help and show me some exercises to do myself. the swelling is on the underneath of my arm at the top so i m finding it hard to elevate it sufficiently especially at night in bed, it also seems to me that it is in my side too altho my doctor told me it wasnt lymphodema. I am worried that it s more sinister than just how i was sewn up after my 2 operations - wle and then mastectomy, i see my oncologist on wednesday for my next herceptin and will ask for an ultrasound or mri scan as i m worrying non stop at the moment. i did read of someone s lymphodema being brought on by regional recurrance , so wonder if that could be the case with me as i do have a lump in my armpit that my gp (family dr ) said was fatty tissue.