Hi Robin, I found this thread through a Google link, after reading that British paper. I am just starting the process of getting diagnosed with the radiation induced brachial plexus neuropathy.

I got triple negative breast cancer in July of 2020, did chemo through december, surgery in February, 7 weeks of radiation in 2021 just about a year ago, and a chemo pill that I stopped last month.

In January I started to notice my hands were tingling, but I thought it was maybe delayed neuropathy. I'm doing physical therapy for my surgeries and we started to notice I was losing my grip strength, and ceased being able to lift heavy things with my right arm. It's progressed to whole arm numbness, I can't lift my coffee cup without spilling it. The neurologist is referring me to a muscular skeletron neurologist, sorry about the random typing I can't type on my phone anymore LOL. My oncologist and neurologist are pretty certain it's radiation induced as my neck was radiated for six weeks because the cancer had spread to my chest wall and lymph nodes and many other difficult to reach places.

Very interested in a support thread, I am 40 now I was 38 when I was diagnosed and I have a two-year-old so lifting is pretty important to me and I'd love to chat with other people who are having trouble with it.

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