Pain and numbness at drain sites a year after surgery

Hi llmedeir! Just bumping this thread to see if anyone else has had similar experiences with drains and can offer some help. Hope it works!

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I've started lightly rubbing my scars, including the drain scars, to try to break up the scar tissue. I had a PT release the major adhesions, but there's clearly scar tissue running up from the drain exit sites that still needs to be addressed.

llmedeir - I had my BMX in December 2011, and my Exchange in August 2012. Almost a year after BMX I still had that Iron Bra feeling, as well as a pesky implant that wanted to stay on my left shoulder.

I went to a Myofascial Release Massage Therapist, who worked on the muscles and nerves that had been cut during surgery. It was painful, but I actually walked out of her office TALLER because I wasn't hunched over in pain.

The other thing she did was Scar Tissue Mobilization. She worked on my BMX scars, but the WORST scars were from my drain holes!!! She worked on them for the longest time, saying they were so tight, they were causing pain to radiate elsewhere.

No, it's not normal, but it's common. You should see if there is someone in your area who can do some Scar Tissue Mobilization. (Breaking up adhesions...)

I always define pain as something that should be always be checked out... if there is honestly nothing that can be done, so be it.... but usually there are solutions we just haven't heard of yet.

Wishing you the best!

p.s. The therapist also got Lefty to drop into her permanent home.