If you have +lymph nodes-Is you underarm sore?

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Krissy37
Krissy37 Member Posts: 291
edited June 2014 in Second or Third Breast Cancer

Hi ladies

I looked around where to post this question-perhaps this is the place.....???

For those women who had cancer more than once, with positive nodes, were your underarm(s) SORE-before your diagnosis?

My first cancer was in April, finished rads in July 08.  Saw my onc doctor this week,  found a LUMP in my OTHER breast, and lumpiness in my radiated breast near the boost area.  Have a mamo in 2 weeks........I'm 38 , with a possible 2nd cancer nightmare.  My left underarm has been slighly sore where the new lump is, close to my armpit (about 2:00 area on the upper breast).

He immediatley sent me for a tumor marker 27.29 test , don't know yet the results.

Anyone else experience this?

Thanks for your comments.

Krissy

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  • Diana_B
    Diana_B Member Posts: 287
    edited September 2008

    yes, i've had cancer in the axilla three times now and i've always had pain - at least one of aching, soreness, throbbing, sharp pains etc.

    people say there's no pain but that's not my experience 

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  • Krissy37
    Krissy37 Member Posts: 291
    edited September 2008

    Darya

    Thanks for your comment , I hope you don't have anymore problems :)

    Krissy

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  • Diana_B
    Diana_B Member Posts: 287
    edited September 2008

    Hi Krissy,



    You get to recognize certain sensations after a while.



    I really hope you don't end up with a second nightmare - you've been through a lot and so recently.



    I'm learning to trust my own sensations more and more in all this - if I had to do it over I would have been more insistent about new and different sensations.



    All the best,

    Darya

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  • razerstam1
    razerstam1 Member Posts: 2
    edited February 2010
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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited February 2010

    reported post - spam

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  • alison34
    alison34 Member Posts: 138
    edited February 2010

    hi krissy

    i have just been diognosed at 34 with bc and positive sens node

    had mastectomy and full axiliary clearence not had results back on the rest yet

    i must say in my case i didnt feel anything wrong under my arm before i got my diognosis but it had got into the nodes

    i hope you have good results and wish you all the best

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  • Faith316
    Faith316 Member Posts: 2,431
    edited February 2010

    I had 2 lymph nodes that were positive when i had my first cancer dx but I did not have any pain in the axilla.

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited February 2010

    reported Razorstam.......What a jerk......Only two posts and both were spam......

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited February 2010

    My sister said her nodes were sore before her bc diagnosis...She was stage 3b......She is doing well now by the way......My nodes were clear and I had no pain..........i had 6 removed from the Senitnel node and the Axillary node Sections..........I now have pain on the back of my arm from nerve damage that wil never heal.....Also have numbness back there that won't heal either.....Bummer......

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  • jasonborn68
    jasonborn68 Member Posts: 5
    edited March 2010
    had a double mastectomy and immediate reconstruction six years ago. I also was unable to use my abd. and ended up doing the latiismus dorsi flap,without inplants. I have had a lot of problems with tightness, burning, tenderness, stabbing pain, numbness, ever since. My shoulder,esp. my right constantly aches, hard to move, they both get tired quickly. I do not believe there has been a long term study done to see what happens for us women down the road to our shoulders/backs/ etc. I have been looking and have only found bits and peices but sounds like there is a issue. I believe you can not move large muscle without something happening to what they were connected to/what part they played.I was told the only problem would be if I was a down hill skier, its that last push, other wise thats all I would notice. Wrong!!! If I knew now what I know ,I would do different, I thought there was a ?like gummy bear inplant ,not sure, but I would investigate that first, before I started moving mucles around. The problem is for me is I wanted breasts , I do have to say my breast turned out well, I do have a hard time finding bras that fir correctly, as I am fuller under my armpits ,and if I get a bra that helps pull that over I am in severe pain, crazy . All I can say if you are not in a hurry, check all your options out, I wish I had. Let me know if I can help in any way. jennyc
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  • Ter
    Ter Member Posts: 357
    edited October 2010

    Hi Krissy,

    I havent posted for long time here, use to when finally diag in 11-04 and all the ladies were so helpful and kind here.

    I then had mast on R breast after waiting since 99 when I found lump, long story, then in 11-05 left breast was a mess, then it had to go, then 11-06 it traveled to mets in 11-06, I hate Novembers, and now it has been in remission I found out just this year 2010, but see onc of course in Nov 2010 ...as I have waited for long time as they removed like 20 nodes back then under R arm, and now for at least 6 months + I found another lump, but onc said back then nothing..well its changed to about 2" long and 1/2 inch wide and hurts even when I dont do anything, really scarred as I looked up Hodgekins and I fit all descriptions of it...even the stress...I went away a few wks ago to get away to Wash State where most girls here know thats my hideaway to see my sister and do nothing but watch the trees grow...but back to armpit, if I called when it started, Id have to see the PA and i feel if im paying to see the onc I want to see the Dr...just my feelings.

    If any one knows of this sort of things to relieve me before i see him OR change drs which they have told me to do, as I have been passed back and forth so many times, and was blindfolded since the beginning, let me know...

    Glad I found you under ACS, and almost forgot my sign on here "Ter" for Terrie, as I ususally go under mets stage 4, and started w/help from admin the hospice site here....as I had alot of problems with alot of gals back then, but hopefully not now...where am I now since I came on thru ACS? and so many things have changed here.

    Best of luck to you and your nodes.

    hugs

    Ter

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