Breast Pain

vampeyes
vampeyes Member Posts: 1,227
edited August 2018 in Pain

Anyone still have pain in the treated breast months later? Not sure if it's scar tissue causing the pain as it's the whole breast. Finished radiation February 28th. Mentioned pain to the nurses before I seen my MO, but they didn't seem to concerned.

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  • BrendaMStern
    BrendaMStern Member Posts: 3
    edited June 2018

    Hi

    I've developed breast pain over the last week, in my whole affected breast. I'm not sure if it's because I've been doing mostly upper body and abdomen and leg toning exercises for the last while. I couldn't do cardio due to an incessant cold and flu.

    When I feel my breast the scar tissue is very sore, so I'm not sure if it is just being stretched.

    I'm going to see my breast surgeon this week for it. It's causing me massive worry.

    I finished 6 months of chemo and then 6 1/2 weeks of daily radiation on 1 December 2017.

    I'll let you know x

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  • vampeyes
    vampeyes Member Posts: 1,227
    edited June 2018

    Thanks Brenda for the response. I don't see my surgeon till September.

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  • Mandy112725
    Mandy112725 Member Posts: 1
    edited July 2018

    yes! I finished my radiation treatments May 9th. By June 1st I felt great, back to my normal self. Now 2 months post treatment my breast is sore and tender. The whole breast.

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  • MeToo14
    MeToo14 Member Posts: 493
    edited July 2018

    I'm three years out from active treatment and I still have pain. It's a weird mix of pain and numbness. The incision and large amount of scar tissue has never stopped being painful. Sometimes it hurts worse then others because of activity or lymphoedema. All my doctors say it's normal and probably not going to go away. I've learned to live with it it doesn't really bother me too much. I hope the pain goes away for you.

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  • vampeyes
    vampeyes Member Posts: 1,227
    edited July 2018

    Lately I have been using a blend of essential oils on it for pain and one for scar tissue, the pain one seems to help a bit, but like you MeToo it seems worse on some days. Funny to be walking around stores not even realizing I am rubbing my boob. haha

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  • Jennitti2
    Jennitti2 Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2018

    Hi there!! Lumpectomy and lymphnoid biopsy in August of 2017. 5 weeks radiation. Started Tamoxifen in Jan 2018. Just had mammogram and all clear. Now experiencing pain here and there in underarms and breasts. Could it be from the Tamoxifen? Hormone levels changing

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  • vampeyes
    vampeyes Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2018

    Hey Jen, could it be cording? Stretching helps me out.

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  • Paco
    Paco Member Posts: 208
    edited August 2018

    Yes, I can relate to this. I had a lumpectomy with no lymph node dissection and submitted to 20 radiation treatments. I felt pretty good after the radiation, save for superficial skin issues. But, in the last month of so, I feel pain at the site of the surgery, deep in my breast. This is new. I usually feel it more while exercising (doing push ups or chest press) but oddly, I never stopped exercising throughout any of my treatment so I don't understand why now and not before.... I did read that Tamoxifen can cause "tumor pain". Hmmm. Not sure if that applies to tumor site pain too.

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  • JoE777
    JoE777 Member Posts: 628
    edited August 2018

    There may be nerve regeration pain. Those little dudes take a lickin'.

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  • AdiAri_2018
    AdiAri_2018 Member Posts: 9
    edited August 2018

    I'm going through chemotherapy and during the first round , AC plus going through my second round , Taxol. I'm getting breast pain, like a squeeze inside the breast. I mentioned to oncologist and he said, chemo is working.

    Is that the response anyone on this forum getting? Im not convinced.

    Adi


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  • gigibee
    gigibee Member Posts: 192
    edited August 2018

    much of the same here; whole breast pain and tightness , finished rads end of January. Never sure if this is “normal”

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  • vampeyes
    vampeyes Member Posts: 1,227
    edited August 2018

    Adi - I would post this on the chemo board or maybe the Taxol board see what others have to say. This board is pretty quiet and you may not get an answer. xxx

    Gigibee - try stretching - it helped with my tightness, the pain has definitely lessened only happening occasionally and I am thinking it's nerve pain.

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