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lionessdoe
lionessdoe Member Posts: 780
edited June 2014 in Lymphedema

I also have a partially occluded carotid artery from the radiation of my supraclavicular area!! GRRRRR!

And oh yea! I am also going deaf in that ear , the treated side!

I'm a yellow canary, so listen up and look out!

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  • BoobsinaBox
    BoobsinaBox Member Posts: 550
    edited February 2011

    Doe,

    I can hardly believe all the things you have to deal with.  I do hope you will get a break from all this some day soon!

    Dawn 

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  • lionessdoe
    lionessdoe Member Posts: 780
    edited February 2011

    Thanks Dawn! I hope we all do!

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  • SaraN
    SaraN Member Posts: 5
    edited February 2011

    Doe, I get it. I had left side rads and had a very blocked left anterior descending artery on my heart before I even finished rads. It had been OK just 3 months before when I had an angiogram. They wanted to do open heart surgery, but decided that I wouldn't heal right after rads, so I ended up with a difficult to do stent.

    Radiation can do LOTS of damage to your blood vessels.

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  • lionessdoe
    lionessdoe Member Posts: 780
    edited February 2011

    Thanks for your reply. I've been told there is no surgery for radiation induced occluded carotid artery except a stent. The artery is basically fried. So I have doubts about it's stability in handling a stent. How is yours doing in your anterior?

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