Hi, I’m Sharon 55 years young, I was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in November I had my tumour and 3 nodes removed on the 10th December all went well started to recover and wait for my radiotherapy appointment etc for January some time ( I now live in portugal) so treatment may be slightly different than uk.
on day 6 I felt a pop in my breast along exscrustiatncg pain and swelling with a Brest like a rock. Turns out I had a burst vessel I had to be cut to release pressure and then emergency op to find the bleed, this was probably more traumatic than having the cancer removed. I’m now day 5 and am starting to get better but I have had to be drained yesterday of free fluid old blood but has started to fill again so starting to get uncomfortable , sore and swollen I’m due to get it drained on Tuesday again. Has anyone else experienced this type of thing and is there anything I can do. My armpit is very tender I was not given any exercises so I have started to follow some cancer research exercises. So to waffle we don’t seem to have support groups. I feel I was very lucky it could have been worse but so traumatic it’s almost taken over from having been diagnosed and getting ready for radiotherapy. Any advice or anything would be greatly appreciated
Thanks I start physio tomorrow so hopefully I will be able to get rid of it soon x
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