Is this cording?

Definitely sounds like cording.  I had the same thing at the beginning.  Like a guitar string through my elbow and under my are.  A few sessions with the physio sorted it out and doing the exercises....a lot of them. 

@eastmum I'm not good at doing the exercises, either.  I've found the best way is to incorporate them into a daily activity or to do a few when you're waiting for something.  So, if I go for a walk, I'll do them during the last 10 minutes (I may look like a dill to anyone driving past but who cares).  If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'll do a couple then.  By the way, most of the exercise sheets suggest that you do 10 of each (or something similar).  At the clinic I go to, the physios have said to only do about 3 but hold each for much longer.  One of my favourite exercises (there's only about 3) at the oncology rehab programme I go to, is on the Reformer.  It involves laying on my back and pulling the trapeze bar past my nose until my arms are right back behind my head, and holding.  I usually find that the first one hurts like hell but it gets better after that and ends up feeling so good - it's all in the stretch.

I had that. Laser sorted mine out and lots of stretching. 

thanks @"Kiwi Angel" and @adean - I mentioned it to my onc today and I'll go see someone as soon as I can - it's a bit sore to touch. I have to confess, I didn't do very many post surgery exercises - I am a very impatient patient! :)

Sounds like cording start doing your post surgery exercises again and was with a cream or sobelene in the shower massaging the affected area does wonders. Xxadean

@Eastmum could be - I had some cording post surgery which I went and saw a lymphodema physio in Caringbah for. She did some massage and I didn’t some at home and it resolved. I got mild lymphodema after my first chemo and have been wearing a sleeve ever since. My last 2 visits the swelling has gone down though so very happy. Go see someone as soon as u can xoxo

Thanks @Sister I wouldn’t be surprised if it was chemo related afterall. I’ll go see a lymphodema massage person as soon as I can. Xx

I meant to say as well that I had some cording after surgery but it flared really quickly and worse than before at the end of Taxol.  My physio seemed to think that there's a likely connection and the onc didn't say she was wrong.

It does sound like cording. When you extend your arm straight up, do you feel cordlike structures standing out?  Do your stretches gently and hold each. Hold your arm up (like walking up the wall and massage under your arm or do this under the shower. I should say though that I was shown how to do this by a lymphoedema physio.  My best suggestion is to make a appointment with someone like this as soon as you can - I have a combination of laser therapy and massage, and sometimes a sucky thing called physio touch.