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Shooting pains in breast some time after surgery
There was discussion a while ago about shooting pains in the "breast" that hit out of the blue - and sometimes recur every however many seconds for up to an hour. I'm 9 months post-surgery and 8 weeks post-end of radiation. I asked my surgeon yesterday. He said, smiling, "I don't know. We don't know. It could be scar tissue inside twitching or some effect of radiation, but we just don't know." So there we have it.
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- I've been getting the shooting pains again in recent weeks as well. I don't think any of them know why! :( It just seems to be one of the 'side effects' that we have to endure! Luckily mine are short & sharp ......
- I occasionally have that stabbing with a nig needle pain also. Weirdly I smile...as I used to have it before they cut my boobs off...so at least the new job feel like part of me.
- Yes I get it 3 years post op and it flaming hurts but disappears just as fast.
- I still get pains in my side near the breast five years after surgery. My GP thought perhaps scar tissue impinging on a nerve and my oncologist went along with that diagnosis. I’ve stopped worrying about it now but I’ll turn a certain way and suddenly, it takes my breath away. It only lasts for a few seconds fortunately and I just live with it now. Another of the “fun things” we have to cope with post BC.
