Hi All
Chatting today with a friend about lymphodema - she had been speaking to a cancer nurse about my swelling who said i really should be referred to a clinic to teach me how to get rid of it properly, she also said it might not be good to massage myself without knowing what i am doing . Among other things we got onto biopsies, which is something that worried the heck out of me at the time.
I had my lymph node biopsied, not the primary because of covid, a core biopsy (big needle) and it bled quite heavily at the time.
I was intensely worried at the time that it would seed the cancer elsewhere (because of all the bleeding) but kind of forgot about it among everything else, now irrationally i am panicking about it all again (is all the worrying normal??) am i going mad?
Has anyone else had the lymph biopsied and bled? did it work out ok for you?
Sorry for all the posts lately i am not doing too well it seems.
Hi Trev
It doesn't work like that. You have to have a long list of criteria fulfilled for a seeded cell to integrate itself into a different part of the body where it is in essence e a foreign cell. Cells from an invasive cancer are moving about all the time yet mets are not common. Really, please stop worrying.
As for lymphoma massage, yes your nurse is right in that there is no point in doing it if you are not doing it properly. If you can get a timely referral to a clinic then go for it but if you know the lymph nodes that have been spared then gentle stroking towards this should help in the meantime. I managed without referral but I didn't have any surgery
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
