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@saraheja
I am pleased to see a professional's information. One thing I see little of is the side effects of radiation. I had radiation 5 days a week for 3 week for IDC after a lumpectomy Feb 2025. Then I started 10mg Tamoxifen. I had a very uncomfortable hot on the inside, very cold skin, simultaneously. And of course no sweating involved. Sometimes even goosepimples. At first it was constant: 24/7 for 3 months and I blamed Tamoxifen. However after stopping the Tamoxifen after 10 weeks, which I started immediately after the radiation, I still had the same side effect constant, took pill to sleep. This started dwindling very gradually. Now, a year later I have the same discomfort for a few hours but it's only a day or two a week. I simply have nothing else to tie it to other than the radiation. My doctor has said he has never heard of "that one"; meaning side effect which we assumed at that time was the tamoxifen. This leaves blaming the radiation in my mind. Have you any comment for me?

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@luckbme It isn't something we typically hear from patients as being likely related to the radiation treatment. However, radiation causes inflammation in the breast that does cause some generalized symptoms (like fatigue) so it's possible that a more systemic/whole body inflammatory response was trigged by your therapy.