Cording elsewhere
I knew about cording occuring in your armpit and experieneced it where it was visible and felt tight to my wrist some days. I started stretching a lot more and was doing pool workouts and it was gone...
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My cording and the portocath are the bane of my life at the moment! I've had a lumpectomy and auxiliary clearance and the cording started immediately after surgery. The pain was worse than the surgery! With the help of Physio I've gotten most of my shoulder range back. However, the cord still stretches from my wrist to the chest wall and tightens up if I try to do the least bit of exercise or weight lifting with the arm. I also have lovely big lumps around my elbow. That left me with the only option of running or Step classes at the gym. They were going fine until the portocath decided that it didn't like being jiggled and now I get excruciating, burning pain with the smallest of movements. My surgeon says it's likely a stitch that's irritating a nerve and he can maybe move it. That means another general anaesthetic! Noooo!!! So I'm putting up with it and using my hand to hold the port in place when I'm doing higher impact stuff. Chemo I can deal with, this stuff is everyday!