rads question

[juanita]

I posted this the other night, but it's gone now, so I'll ask again. I had a lumpectomy under the left arm, about 2:00 if you were looking at me. For about a month now I've noticed a tender spot on a rib about the 9:00 spot on the same breast. It does not hurt continuously. In fact, if I hadn't been doing a self exam I would not even know it was there. So I asked if anybody had any ideas about what it could be, while I was waiting to go see the rad onc. I saw him this morning and after he made it even more sore from pushing on it, he thinks it's a cracked rib. He is ordering a ct just to be sure, and will be there when it's done so he can tell them what he wants to see. I do not remember getting hit there or bumping it in any way, but I do use my chest as a table of sorts when I lift heavy things over my head (hard to explain). He thought that could be enough pressure to have caused it since that would have been in rad area.