Was just wondering if anyone has any experience of shoulder recovery quite late after neck dissection. I am now ten months post op and losing any hope of shoulder nerve and facial nerve getting back to normal. I do physio exercises religiously, have tried nerve supplements etc etc I pushed for an EMG a few weeks ago which shows the nerve is functioning at 10% compared to the other side. It’s constantly painful and impacts on day to day stuff and sleep. The lip affects speech and eating . The surgeons keep saying it will probably come back but I think that is just a strategy to reduce hope gently as if they’d told me on day one it would have been a lot to deal with on top of everything else. Reading neck dissection stories here, I keep wondering if I’d had the op elsewhere would I have had all these extra issues ( the main focus was teeth and jaw, but shoulder and lip are the extras).
many thanks
