Tram flap reconstruction

Hello lovely people. I'm back in the UK now after my diagnosis and surgery in the Philippines. I'm 15 months post surgery and I'm now hooked into the NHS. I'm finding it really good, but it's different to come into the system afterwards, meeting people, finding out what happens here, how it happens, what I need, what I'm entitled to and what the journey will look like now and all those things. I've been here nearly four months and it took some time to get a breast care nurse. I found that having a named person and a number meant I had someone who could answer all my questions and help signpost me. I love Macmillan too, I've found the forum and the support line invaluable and I've used them sooooooo much. The hardest part of this journey is my abdomen - I knew it would be a long recovery but the pain and tension and tightness and aches is ongoing. I still have to rest and be horizontal after a long day out. Some days are better than others, but some are so bad. I'm trying to work out if it's the surgery - a problem, the plastics team here are in that camp. I'm trying to work out if it's food and how much I eat - hoping to get nutrition and dietary advice, and I'm trying to eat as healthily as I can as well as factoring menopausal symptoms. I did the cancer society November 10km swim challenge, swimming is good, but it does hurt if I overdo it, it's also fo expensive for this unemployed girlie to be sustainable. Those referrals are still pending. I'm writing this because today is a bad day. I'm so sore and it's impossible to do anything.  I'm just resting and wondering if I should be taking pain killers, I try not to as I'd need a lot.