Re: Ren honey (to )

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, is the swelling & elbow pain on the same side as your surgery?

And also, did you have radiation?

I'm asking because your description of the symptoms sounds very much

like the way lymphedema begins. This is a not uncommon side effect of

radiation treatment, and it happened to me starting about two months

after I finished rads. I'd get it checked too -- there may be lots

more they can do to ward off the swelling than they knew about when I

was dealing with it back in 1989.

hugs,

Nan

> I've been noticing my " elbow " lately, when lean it against the table

or the

> arm rest in the car, the bone is really bothering me. Tony noticed

it was more

> swollen than the other side too.

>

> I am refusing to think anything " negative " about it, although I'd be

lying if

> I said I don't think about it when it pains me. I never had a problem

> before, no tennis elbow, nothing, so I feel your anxiety Ren. I go

for my 3 month

> checkup next month so I'll just wait. I mean,what are the odds of

it going to

> the " bone " of my elbow? Weird. My oncologist said many times to me

in the

> past 2 years: If something is wrong, YOU will know it. Also, he

feels it would

> reoccur in a more common spot, like my collarbone first.

>

> Jeeeezzzz Ren - the anxiety of this " thing called " Breast Cancer "

really

> stinks sometimes. I wonder some times: will it ever end?

>

> Chin up Girlfriend!!

>

> Hugs,

>

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