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jennyboog
jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

Anyone else had armpit pain during chemo?  It happened some with AC but it went away within a couple days but it's hanging around with Tax.  I even had some bruising in both armpits but my onc says my platlets are good and she doesn't know why it's happening...not very reassuring :)  It's not the biopsy, that was done months ago and all I've had done is chemo, no surgery yet.  I do have +LN on the left side but why would it be happening on the right side?  Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.    

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  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited October 2010

    Yeah, it can be achiness but it has been a sharp pain that comes and goes also.  I think my LN's are swollen and putting pressure on my nerves b/c I have weird things going on with my arm.  My onc said, well there are muscles in there and you're going to have muscle aches with chemo but she still has no clue why I'm bruising.  Thanks, glad to know someone else has had the same problem.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2010

    I still get armpit pain.  My surgery was in March 2009.  I am seeing my BS tomorrow for a folloup and want to ask him about it.

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    Barb

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  • amlg1
    amlg1 Member Posts: 596
    edited October 2010

    Wow I thought I was the only one.I get pain in my left armpit for about a year now.I had axillary dissection on right arm pit.I did do DD a/c and DD TH.I would tell my onco  and BS ,but everything felt ok.Well its a year since last TH,still get the pain,but all test MRI and mammo came back great.

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  • NancyD
    NancyD Member Posts: 3,562
    edited October 2010

    Yep, I get that achy armpit pain...and sometimes sharp (but not very bad) pains. Mostly on my cancer side (left).  But since I've had everything (chemo, bilat mx, rads, recon), I figured it was just something to do with one of those and haven't even mentioned it to my drs. It's certainly not as bad as my before-it-rains arthritis, lol. So I just live with it.

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  • QueenKong
    QueenKong Member Posts: 154
    edited November 2012

    Yes, I have armpit pain on the side with the cancer. I worry that it means the cancer is in in the nodes.

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  • TectonicShift
    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited May 2014

    I get armpit pain on my "good side." My BS told me it's normal on tamoxifen because there is a lot of breast tissue toward the armpit. Also the "axillary stem" I think she said. She said the area is sensitive to hormonal changes and it means the tamoxifen is working. She called it pain from my "sympathy breast." So I feel better about it now.

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  • 116
    116 Member Posts: 108
    edited December 2012

    Glad to see this post. I have been having an annoying little ache, sometimes sharp pain, in my good armpit for at least two years. I asked my breast surgeon about it, but he said that a lump would have to be big enough to be felt in order to have armpit pain. Not so sure I believe that though, and I hate that doctors discount that I am the one who has lived in this body for the last 50 years. so I should know if something is bothering me or not, regardless of the cause. I have also had good mammograms and MRIs during this time, yet still it is still always on my mind and bugging me with worry regardless of what anyone says. I have been considering asking my GP for an ultrasound, just to put my fears to rest once and for all. Last year when I was getting an ultrasound on a lump in my scar line, that the biopsy later proved to be non cancerous, I asked them to ultrasound my left armpit, but of course they couldn't do it without an order, I always mention it at my mammogram appointment too, without response. I just want to stop thinking about it once and for all even though it is probably nothing it makes me craaaaaazy.

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  • Hopex3
    Hopex3 Member Posts: 397
    edited November 2012

    I too have armpit pain. In fact, that is what alerted me to find my tumor in my breast.

    I panicked thinking the cancer is in my lymph nodes but they did a test on me....forget what it's called .....they injected dye into me and the dye was suppose to light up any cancer cells. It only lit up my breast tumor. They put the machine on both armpits and nothing lit up. I keep having my onc feel under there and she says she feels nothing. So, maybe it is the chemo or nerve endings. I'm trying not to worry about it but its hard. I just want it all to go away or better yet, wake up and realize this is all a bad dream!

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  • lightandwind
    lightandwind Member Posts: 754
    edited November 2012

    Remember that lymph nodes react to a lot of things. It could be a reaction to the common cold. Chemo is rough on the immune system, so seems like lymph nodes might react due to that. It happened to me while I was on tamox quite a bit. I had armpit pain on my right side. Tumor was on my left. I thought for sure it was cancer on the right too, but it was not. Pain went away on it's own after awhile.

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