Cording after sentinel lymph node removal

Hi,

I’ve just joined today - diagnosed with tubular breast cancer in October, lumpectomy & sentinel lymph nodes removed in November and now I seem to have under arm cording! What next ?  I have to start radiotherapy in January and I’d love to get this sorted before I start......any advice would be gratefully received!

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  • Hi Rachel

    I also had cording following sentinel node biopsies done. I had faithfully been doing the exercises from the leaflet given to me. Maybe I had overdone things though and the cording became quite uncomfortable. Spoke to my Macmillan nurse who advised massage. It took about 2-3 weeks to gradually clear up and I was concerned it might make radiotherapy difficult. 
    Anyway all was well with the radiotherapy and I hope you will soon be feeling better. It's a real pain and something that you can do without after everything else.

    Best wishes for the New Year, I will be glad to see the back of this one!

    Love Mary xx

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  • Hi Rachel

    I also had cording following sentinel node biopsies done. I had faithfully been doing the exercises from the leaflet given to me. Maybe I had overdone things though and the cording became quite uncomfortable. Spoke to my Macmillan nurse who advised massage. It took about 2-3 weeks to gradually clear up and I was concerned it might make radiotherapy difficult. 
    Anyway all was well with the radiotherapy and I hope you will soon be feeling better. It's a real pain and something that you can do without after everything else.

    Best wishes for the New Year, I will be glad to see the back of this one!

    Love Mary xx

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