new warmth in breast

ckmcclelland
ckmcclelland Member Posts: 47
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Should I be concerned about new warmth in my affected breast almost 3 months after radiation finished?

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  • Kat11
    Kat11 Member Posts: 1,931 Member
    #2
    I feel the warmth to. Not
    I feel the warmth to. Not sure if it something to worry about and I have been done with Rads since Feb.
  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 Member Posts: 2,729
    #3
    Wouldn't hurt to ask your
    Wouldn't hurt to ask your doctor about it. Maybe he/she should check it. At the least it would ease your mind.
  • susie09
    susie09 Member Posts: 2,930
    #4
    Marcia527 said:

    Wouldn't hurt to ask your
    Wouldn't hurt to ask your doctor about it. Maybe he/she should check it. At the least it would ease your mind.

    Ask your own rads
    Ask your own rads oncologist, but, mine said you can feel that sometimes for up to a year. Let us know what yours says.
  • ckmcclelland
    ckmcclelland Member Posts: 47
    #5
    susie09 said:

    Ask your own rads
    Ask your own rads oncologist, but, mine said you can feel that sometimes for up to a year. Let us know what yours says.

    breast warmth & soreness
    Called 3 of my doctor's offices and couldn't get much of an answer. Last one (medical oncologist's office) told me to go see my family practice doctor.But they would see me if I couldn't get an appt. with family practice doctor. I was surprised that they tried to refer me there.

    Anyway, yesterday I had my regular check up appt. with my radiation oncologist (I'm so lucky that he is so caring and compassionate). He said that most women have the soreness go away by one month after last radiation treatment. But he estimated that I'm in the less than 1% who has the breast soreness and warmth persist. Had another patient like me about 10 years ago and it took a year to go away. He first said just to wait and hope. He mentioned in passing steroids though he wasn't going to put me on them. I picked up on that and said I'd like to consider a steriod. He asked if I'd ever taken them and I said I'd taken prednisone bursts. So after some discussion he wrote me a prescription for a dexmethasone burst which I'll start tomorrow. I'm hopeful it will work without bad side effects and spare me possible months of breast soreness. (Hope I can wear a bra and use a seat belt comfortably, too.)

    I keep falling into the 1% of women with bad side effects from cancer stuff. This is the third time in my cancer journey which should have been short for my DCIS. I went through depression twice, too, in my journey because of cancer meds--not fun, either. I think when dealing with cancer, the journey is never short, however. Even the least serious cancer beast is nasty because it's cancer.

    By the way the first mammogram is pretty painful with my condition--at least I thought so. But I know eventually I'll complete my breast cancer journey because of wonderful support (much of it from this discussion board) from my husband and friends and my faith. My doctors have been great, too. I'm very lucky but I did hand pick two of them from a friend's recommendation. They didn't have to take me but they did.

    Hugs to all,
    Colleen

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