Difficult recovery from mastectomy

FormerMember over 5 years ago

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Hi ladies, I'm a newbie here. I was diagnosed with invasive lobular breast cancer grade 2 in November and have since had a mri and bone scan and ct scan. I had a mascetomy on the 20th Dec and a sentinel lymph node biospy taken as well.

I'm really struggling with recovering from the mascetomy. I have the predicted muscle and nerve discomfort but am still ten days on absolutely shattered. I get up for a while potter make lunch perhaps a short walk but then have to lie down and sleep. I used to have M.E and it feels like that again, achy and flu like.

My wound is healing well no infection, I wondered what other peoples experience is like as I would really like to start to pick up for the next step of my treatment..

Thanks

FormerMember over 5 years ago

Hello and welcome , I’m sorry to hear your struggling with your recovery. I noticed you haven’t joined any group yet and would like to suggest that you join and post in the breast cancer group to get the experience that your seeking. I will put the link below for you to click on, you can then click join, set how often you get notifications from others posting in the group and start your own discussion in that group just like you have done here.

https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/breast-cancer/discussions.

You may also like to look through the cancer experience groups (the group button is one of the tabs under the online community wording) there might be some other groups that you can identify with. I have a different cancer but those weird nerve sensations for a while after a removal of a lymph nodes in my groin.

Good luck with your recovery and your next treatment.