Hot breast and tenderness

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Had lumpectomy and 4 lymph nodes removed in January followed by 5 radiotherapy sessions last one being on 8t,h April. For some reason the last week the breast is warm/hot to the touch and tender at times also under the armpit, but not all of the time? Also although I can still get hands above head it now feels like stretching yet I did the given exercises. Just wondering why now?

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    FormerMember

    Hi Mammymo welcome to the forum and sorry to hear  about what has been happening  for you. Hot to the touch and tender to the touch would make me think of a possible infection and you need to get the GP to have  a look at this as you may need Anti-biotics so worth getting  checked out.. It may also be the tightness could be a little bit of Lymphoedema developing alongside an infection so go get checked out.