Intercostal muscle pain years after mastectomy - HELP NEEDED

flaxhigh

Hi there,

I suffer from intercostal muscle pain after a left mastectomy 7 years ago. I was fine for the first couple of years but as the scar tissue tightened and my shoulder rounded over somewhat, the pain got worse. Now it's pretty bad all the time.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this? I have recently come across an extremely useful site online which teaches you self-help techniques for various muscle-related pain conditions. It's run by a guy called Gary Crowley. I have recently asked him to put up an exercise for this kind of chest/rib pain but he says he only likes to put up exercises that he knows works and usually likes to practise on a live patient before he posts exercises. The problem is that I am in the UK and he is in San Diego so I can't exactly hop over easily and be his patient!

I wonder if there are any others living in his area who might like to see him? (I'm assuming this would be free - but I am happy to sponsor a visit to him as I'm pretty desperate for an effective exercise for this pain.) I have tried his other exercises on hip pain and also jaw (TMJ) pain and it works a treat (and I'm a real skeptic when it comes to 'therapies').

The link to his site is http://www.do-it-yourself-joint-pain-relief.com/

If you can help please contact Gary and/ or reply to me here.

Thanks so much

L x

car2tenn

Intercostal  pain can also be from inflammation.  If you had any kind of physical overstress or incident then you could have intercostal inflammation called costochondritis.  It can take up to 6 months to resolve and it has nothing to do with cancer. Carolyn

MominMichigan

Were you able to resolve your intercostal pain? I am having very similar symptoms as you. I am 5 years out of a double mastectomy.