Post op pain
Hi just wanted to hear feedback on post op pain people have following their surgeries. I had breast conservation surgery with sentinal node biopsy. Lots of dull pain down my arm all the time and acr...
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Hello @Shan_07
I had a lumpectomy with sentinal node biopsy. I also had a dull aching, burning pain down the right side of my chest and an excrutiating "burning, onfire, ants eating me" pain down the inside of my right arm from shoulder to fingers, bit like being tasered ( not that I have ever been tasered but my policewoman friend has).
I was never warned about this from my surgeon. The pain began about 2 weeks after surgery when I had returned home from Perth. It is now 2 years and the pain comes and goes.
The ongoing pain has been dismissed many times by the medical profession, usually with the comment " unusual, as you had a lumpectomy".
My own research indicates that the brachial nerves along the right side of Miss Perky were severed during surgery and are repairing.
Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and breast care nurses are very thin on the ground where I live.
I had a lumpectomy with sentinal node biopsy. I also had a dull aching, burning pain down the right side of my chest and an excrutiating "burning, onfire, ants eating me" pain down the inside of my right arm from shoulder to fingers, bit like being tasered ( not that I have ever been tasered but my policewoman friend has).
I was never warned about this from my surgeon. The pain began about 2 weeks after surgery when I had returned home from Perth. It is now 2 years and the pain comes and goes.
The ongoing pain has been dismissed many times by the medical profession, usually with the comment " unusual, as you had a lumpectomy".
My own research indicates that the brachial nerves along the right side of Miss Perky were severed during surgery and are repairing.
Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and breast care nurses are very thin on the ground where I live.