Sentinel node removal & recovery

If you had sentinel nodes removed, how long did it take for your incision area to be less sore?

I don't have symptoms of infection but I'm a little surprised the incision area is still quite sore 6 days out from surgery.

TIA

GenX - My SLNB hurt more than my LX. Didn't have any complications with the SLNB area itself, it just took forever to not hurt and not be mad at me. I had surgery in Aug and I don't think I could wear anything, touch it, sleep on my L side without it hurting/aching until at least Dec or Jan. Granted, I had many SEs from RADs so that kept the issue going IMO. My LX scar/site stopped hurting/aching due to surgery reasons probably early Oct.

I think from what I've read and seen, SLNBs seem to hurt more and take longer to heal in general than their accompanying LX. Although, I'm no expert of course.

EDJ3 - I found a picture of a stretch my PT gave me (I can now add the towel along my spine to extend the stretch). She advised me to do it more like a SnowAngel though. STart with arms by thighs, palms toward ceiling, and then snow angel your way up as far as you can and then back down.

Plus here's a less than 2 min video of Bow & Arrow stretch. After progressing on this one, she then advised me to start in this same position but instead of drawing the bow across your chest, you rotate the top arm like an arm of a clock (keeping your fingers/palm as close to the floor as possible) up to your head and then tiliting palm upwards at the head and move behind your shoulder area. Basically like you are arcing your bow arm from 3pm to 9am. It took me weeks to even get to be able to move towards 12pm. Then MONTHS to get between 1-3 pm. It was tough but helpful.

These two really helped me with my cording issues. Maybe they might be helpful for you too?