Hello all!
I have another question...do any of you or have you, experienced a strange type of skin tenderness in your surgery areas?
I know nerves missfire and reconnect and there will be pain spasms. However, I've noticed that the area of complete dissection in my right armpit, passing along the underside of my right arm to my elbow, and also passing downward about half way down my side, is still numb (which I expect - I'm clumsy and have had LOTS of stitches), but oddly sensitive at the same time. It's a difficult sensation to describe. My skin is numb to the touch, but at the same time painful if I scratch or rub it deeply. My surgery was back in August. I tripped the other day and my son reached out to grab my upper right arm and I winced in pain at the pressure from his hand.
From all of the surgeries I've had in my life, including two c-sections, this is the strangest sensation I've ever experienced. Perhaps it's because so much tissue is removed during the lymph node dissection. I'm not sure.
My surgeon, like most, doesn't deal well with patients that are awake and talking (let's face it, surgeons rarely have bedside manner), and so his answers are incomplete at best. Perhaps no one really knows why this happens?
Wonder if any of you out there experience the same thing?
Thanks to all.
Kaye
