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Lymphoedema and recurrence fears
Hello everyone. It has been ages since I have posted. Since this site was re done I no longer got notifications, then 2 major surgeries in 2016 and life kind of took over. I was diagnosed with Lymph...
Brenda5 said:My arm and hand blew up while I was on chemo. I wore compression sleeve and gauntlet and started lymph draining massage. Look on youtube and there are some good ones you can follow on there. Heat is the worst as it makes my arm swell very quickly. I try not to do much with that arm while its hot weather. I have no nodes left under the arm so I imagine I will have to keep the massages up for life long. Small price to pay for getting rid of cancer.Yes I am finding the heat really upsets it quite quickly:(