Recovery Post Lymph Node Removal
Hi everyone. I’m one week post op with mastectomy and auxiliary lymph node removal (16 were taken which I believe could be a lot???). My movement is slowly getting better everyday - I have a littl...
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Hi @"Kiwi Angel",
I had 24 nodes out just over a year ago. Like @onemargie I drove myself 4 days later to get the drains out. Not the best patient either. I just do what I feel capable of at the time. The exercises help so much, especially the wall walk. so about three weeks after surgery I decided that painting a tongue and groove timber ceiling (a job I had been going to get to for years) by hand sounded like a good idea! My husband thought I was nuts, but it certainly sorted out the drainage, range of movement and strength. I just did as much as I could each day and had pretty much full strength and movement back within about 6-8 weeks.
The little electric shocks are the nerves starting to fire up I was told. They disappeared within a few weeks. It was pretty numb under there for quite a while (makes shaving under your arm interesting) then a combination of numb bits and super sensitive bits and now it's pretty normal mostly. It still occasionally gets a little puffy and feels a bit weird but that's when I've been doing a lot of physical work and it goes down by the next day.
All the best
XOXOXO
I had 24 nodes out just over a year ago. Like @onemargie I drove myself 4 days later to get the drains out. Not the best patient either. I just do what I feel capable of at the time. The exercises help so much, especially the wall walk. so about three weeks after surgery I decided that painting a tongue and groove timber ceiling (a job I had been going to get to for years) by hand sounded like a good idea! My husband thought I was nuts, but it certainly sorted out the drainage, range of movement and strength. I just did as much as I could each day and had pretty much full strength and movement back within about 6-8 weeks.
The little electric shocks are the nerves starting to fire up I was told. They disappeared within a few weeks. It was pretty numb under there for quite a while (makes shaving under your arm interesting) then a combination of numb bits and super sensitive bits and now it's pretty normal mostly. It still occasionally gets a little puffy and feels a bit weird but that's when I've been doing a lot of physical work and it goes down by the next day.
All the best
XOXOXO