pain in ribs.

Tomboy

oh, spring will come, sure enough, but the weather is almost too perfect, here in LA, altho it is just a little chilly  today. was the first cloudy day in a long time. i am saving bathwater to water plants, or the bucket in the shower, because it is something like 7 years now we have gotten hardly any rain, or at least not enough. was wearing shorts and t-shirts all week! and some trees are blooming early, and then for sure it will rain, and knock the blossoms off. so sad, cause they are pretty, but also, some trees won't have time to form fruit. i go tomorrow, monday, for follow up with breast surgeon, and hopefully will find out what the deal is. thanks for asking after!

NewBride

Wow. I thought I was the only one. Feels like a bruise on the cancer side,underside of my lowest rib. Actually noticed subtle deformation on that side. It looks slightly larger. Didn't really freak out about it til I put on a cami and the fabric over the area made it more obvious. Oncologist's PA palpated the area but found nothing to worry about so I went home still mystified. Wondered if perhaps underwire in my bra could be the culprit. Since MX I even sleep in a bra and my PS is a big fan of underwire. Well I stopped wearing the underwire bras and the pain seems to be resolving. Sounds simplistic but I do feel better.

Tomboy

Newbride,(and congrats on that!)hmmmm, is it a touch of lymphedema, for you? How my breast surgeon explained it to me today, was the lymph nodes and nerves in that quadrant of where we had surgury, are overcompensating, and the same thing is true about nerve damage. so hopefully, that is all that is. good luck, and warm wishes!

NewBride

Hey, kathec. Thanks for the info and the warm wishes. I probably ought to change my avatar.  I was initially diagnosed in 2009, approximately 3 months after my wedding. So I was a new bride then. Happily married for 4 1/2 years now to a wonderful man who went thru everything with me. Poor thing may have to do it again.  Just found out that my latest MRI is less than wonderful so ultrasound on Thursday. Wish me luck .

Tomboy

for sure i am wishing you all the luck in the world, and will be thinking of you all day thursday. maybe it is just scar tissue, i will be hoping so hard, for your sake. sounds like  you made an excellent choice, in life partner! how come they didnt do an snb?

NewBride

Thanks so much. Don't think it is scar tissue as I've had clean mammograms/mri til now. Ultrasound will be looking at axilla. Nothing scarred there. I will be hoping/praying for good results for you too as it sounds like you're waiting to hear also. 

As to no SNB, my initial DX was DCIS sprinkled over an area of about 4cm. That's a lot on a 32A breast so MX and reconstruction was pretty much the only way to go. I opted for no SNB because we thought it was just DCIS. Docs were okay with that. Path discovered a 1.1cm IDC (mucinous or mixed, as I recall).  BS called it diffuse. Anyway, it didn't show up on mammo and stereotactic shot right past it so nobody knew it was there til after mx. Case went to breast board and with an Oncotype DX of 25, Taxotere and Cytoxan seemed to be the next thing to do. Sort of a preemptive strike.