thanks for posting your comments, and a bit of your story,
This is so weird you ladies comming on here, (well not that wierd really lol) I watched a doco on tv the other night, a young english girl, who thought she was in this high risk, due to the brac gene, (i never knew about it before watching this), and the doco was about her options should she have it, she spoke to lots of ladies in the same position, it was so interesting, but lucky for her, at the end of the doco she had the test and she didnt have the gene, it was a good presentation though. i have had a lumpectomy, chemo, radio and am now on arimidex hormone for 5 years, and in my experience, radio is not to bad at all, a bit of redness (I made sure i used sorbolene cream, for washing and moisturising the breast area), and of course the tiredness, but once again this was no where near anything like the chemo tiredness, i found if i felt tired i lay down for 1/2 hour, then i was fine to go again, but always remember everyone is different, although the general opinions on here of radio have been the same as mine, with only a few having problems with it.
good luck, and i hope you keep comming back here, as you see by helping yourself, you can help others, so thanks again for your comments. Regards Moira.