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Severe shoulder pain after mastectomy
I'm 17 days on from mastectomy/ expander insertion on left, and excision of papillomas on right. After the lovely drugs of the first couple of days wore off, I've had constant and severe shoulder and ...
I had a right mastectomy no recon. I had some shoulder pain after surgery that I found to be caused by the way I was sleeping. Once I could comfortably sleep on my right/tummy it was like heaven and releif was immediate. Unfortunately the pain came back tenfold with radiotherapy to the point my radio oncologist sent me for exrays, which found nothing much. It only lasted a few days but was excruciating in my collar bone area. Hope it goes soon.