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DebsSA
5 years agoMember
Post Mastectomy Pain
Hi I had her2 negative in left breast in 2019. I had chemo, lumpectomy and sentinel node removal, radiotherapy and Herceptin. Got the all clear then in November this year they found cancer in situ in ...
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Blossom1961
5 years agoMember
I still have numbness two years after mastectomy. I gets bouts of pain in my chest and arm but nothing major. For about six months after my op (I had full anx clearance one side) I had sharp burning pain in the back of my arm where the surgeon informed me they did a lot of digging around and probably damaged some nerves. It felt like someone was stabbing me. Fortunately, I no longer have that but the dull pain comes and goes. I also still get quite sharp pain where they inserted the camera for the port but that is becoming less frequent. Nerve damage takes a long time to heal.
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