Anyone Still Having Pain After 1 Year

Sorry to add after 3 years I am still unconfortable with bras and have to take tylenol everynight for trunck pain. But I don't want to worry you, appartently this is very rare and has something to do with nerve damage. I did not receive radiation so cannot attribute it to this.

One year after bilat mx: No major pain but tightness, an occasional shooting pain, and more tightness. I have had a lot of PT and exercise almost every day which really helps to reduce the tight feeling. If I miss a day or more, I feel like I am hunching forward, the tightness pulling me into a curl. It takes some conscious moves to get out of that - after exercising I'm fine. None of this seems abnormal to any of my surgeons - I presume they see much worse. All in all I can't complain, as long as I keep moving I have adequate posture and range of motion and no real pain. It's just that life is never quite the same after mx.

yep- one yr later  after bi-lat, no recon and i have tightness and still some pains from time to time. I also have some adhesions where my inciions didn't heal well. It makes stretching very difficult on that side.

I still cannot scub my chest in the shower like i used to do..i still have to much sensitivity in the whole chest area. Kind of have to baby it to wash... C-sections were kind of like that too so I know that it will eventually get better just not sure how long it will take.

Been 11 months, and yep, I still have a fair bit of pain.

I had a failed recon and I think there's quite a bit of scar tissue left. It hurts and feels weird at the gym, and I also get shooting pains and pulling and aches. Oddly it's a great deal worse when I am sick.

I still can't face into the shower without covering my chest - it's just too sensitive. Is that normal?? 

I know this is an old post, but I"m new here and am just now not having significant pain under the arms (my incisions for a bilat went almost to the back of my armpits).  surgery was 12/08.  very difficult finding comfortable clothes in the winter because under the arm is of course where seams of clothing are.  finally saw a second BS after original said, nerve damage, have to live with it; who said it would eventually end and in the meantime I could try accupuncture and/or pain mgmt doc.  Saw an acc. for a consult - pricey; got busy and in the meantime, it's more tolerable now.  No recon, and I think I wasn't treated as carefully during surgery as I might otherwise have been.  Ditto the above comments re: nice to know I"m not alone.  (lumpectomy with node removal 2/98; celebrated 10 years in july 09 and bam - routine mammo shows DCIS in orginal breast, so off they both came - BRAC negative, but first surgery was premenopausal, so not taking any chances)  

I am almost a year out following a mast and immediate implant with Alloderm.  I asked my Onc about the lingering occasional pain and he said it can last for 3 years.  I thought the pain was due to the implant but evidentally it can be from the mast also.  I'll be having another mast in January for a new IDC found on the other side.  So, guess I am looking at about 4 years of occasional pain reminding me that my cancer has been removed!