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  • anchi

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    January 29, 2015 at 10:40 am in reply to: lymphedema

    Great that you have a specialist close by. We don’t have it here, I have to make an appointment and wait at least one month, but I hope I’ll never need one urgent. Thanks for sharing your story. I found you on instagram so I’ll be following your great progress! 🙂

  • anchi

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    January 29, 2015 at 2:49 am in reply to: lymphedema

    thanks Sassylina for your answer! 🙂 How many lymph nodes did they remove you? I got a pressure sleeve a few days ago and I’ll try the pole today with it. I got a glove separate from the sleeve so I can remove it if I need better grip. I also keep a close look at my arm and any changes, same as you I don’t want to give up something that makes me happy! I hope everything will be ok 🙂

  • anchi

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    January 28, 2015 at 7:20 am in reply to: lymphedema

    Hi everybody! 🙂 I’m 34 years old and last spring I was diagnosed with stage 1 BC, 6mm, luckily didn’t need chemotherapy, I had radiation, also nolvadex for 5 years with zoladex injections. But they removed the first axillary nodes, 13 lymph nodes were removed and came back clean.

    Before the surgery I was going to pole dance for almost three years and also went rock climbing. Some doctors say I can try these sports again and some are against it. I went back to pole dance classes two months ago. I only did the one hour exercises before the pole part and skipped the pole. Last week I lifted myself once on the pole. I was really scared and worried about my arm.

    Since this is an old topic do you have any new advice on this? Thanks! 🙂