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Mastectomy of irradiated breast
Hi Everyone,
I recently had a double mastectomy and my left breast had also been irradiated 15 years ago. I am keen to hear from anyone who went through a similar situation. I developed an infecti...
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I get tight each chemo round and my oncologist believe it is the steroids. So I make sure I do the exercises...sometimes need a aah bra to help and other times just a tight tank seems to help the flow a bit. Sitting with my arm up on the affected side for a while seems to help. I go to a hydro pool too and do arm rotations and stretching and find the water compression seems to assist with the drainage. Hope things improve for you. Kath x