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How long did you take to start feeling comfortable about your mastectomy site?
I had my mastectomy on 21 December and it's been 3 months. My mastectomy site still feels numb, prickly at times like there are electrical impulses, and tightness. I especially feel it when I wear tig...
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The tightness and tingles will be all your re-connective tissue healing. Definitely go see a a therapist to help with massage along the scar site. I felt pulling and like a zap from time to time. I have been doing exercise, gentle physio workout and seeing a physio and a lymphodema therapist to help all the inflammation and swelling from the surgery. I had a nipple sparring bilateral mastectomy with immediate implants 21st Feb. Previous diagnosis was 2011 i had chemo, lumpectomy, more surgery to remove more lymph nodes (plus ovaries and tubes - cancer was hormone positive) then i had radiation. So i figured no more chemo wasn't doing that again. Thru my past journey I found i had many connections to post op solutions for healing understanding nutrition, naturopathy, meditation and yin yoga and various styles of body work therapy like physio. All the best.