burning arm pain with expanders wont let up.

Sometimes neurontin/gabapentin can work on nerve pain. Have you had any fills? Sometimes the TEs are sitting on nerves and once they are inflated a bit, the pressure is relieved. If your PS won't give you meds to help, check with your Primary MD or your oncologists. Being in pain is not acceptable..and the docs don't always have any concept of what we experience.



Best wishes

Pamelot- sorry your having this pain. I had it too,it transversed below the implant going to my

. Part of the underarm was numb and still is 7 years later. The nerve pain under the breast gradually went away. Maybe a year. Never worn underwire bra since then. Go with what ever is most comfortable.

Pamalot:

It is impossible to predict IF or HOW LONG nerve damage pain takes to recover. 

I am 4 months shy of being 3 years out from my bilateral mastecotmy w/no reconstruction and lymph node removal and I STILL have such bad problems with the surgical neuropathy from the surgery that I still can't even function around the  house (and now after my July 2013 lung surgery, I am the lucky winner of more nerve damage!!)

I still need multiple medications and Lidociane IV Infusions every 9-10 weeks for pain. 

Others never get this, some get it worse, some not so bad, some heal up quickly, some drag on for years. And not even doctor's can predict if and when and how much recovery each person will get.

I didn't have reconstruction but it is possible to have neuorapthy from nicking nerves AND have breast recontruction pain or have one without the other. Basically, it is a crap shoot who gets it or not and how much.

I am terribly sorry to hear of you having these pain problems.

I would suggest you make an appointment with your Breast Surgeon (I would not suggest the plastic surgeon because I have read of many women who's plastic surgeons poo-poo or ignore their pain, especially if it is from nerve damage. I am sure that there are good PS's out there, not saying they are all bad or that yours is) and discuss your possible nerve damage.

I would write down EXACTLY and as SPECIFIC as you can be as to WHERE you feel pain, WHAT the pain feels like (use a lot of specific, descriptive adjectives, the more the beter), WHAT makes it WORSE, WHAT makes it BETTER and any PATTERNS to pain (better in the morning, worse at night, etc). That way you will be less likely to forget anything when disussing it.

There are medications and treatments out there for surgical neuropathy, most come with some side effects, but like everything else, everyone handles them differently.

I hope you start to get some relief.