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Early stage lymphoedema
Hi everyone. So I’ve just come back from one of my lymphoedema clinic appointments and they said my sozo measures and arm measurements were a bit high. I’ve been given some extra exercises and self ly...
@unicorn3 I agree with Afraser even though it is a pain to wear and hot and going to get hotter, get onto it. Mine has flared up significantly a little because of chemo and other procedures over the past six weeks. It can be debilitating, my hand, fingers and forearm are worst and impacts daily activities, opening and chopping things. Physio and I have worked hard over past couple of weeks with full arm bandaging that delivered a slight reduction on the sozo. I am about to start radiation and in hindsight I would advocate prevention rather than treatment. There are a couple of lymphoedema podcasts on the BCNA website worth watching too. People can be rude and stare, it is hard going but you got this and you aren’t alone!