Question:
Has anyone experienced a sometimes sharp or burning pain under both breast near

the top of your incision if so could you please shed some light on what this could be it mainly hurts when i'm lying down at night. It started about two nights ago and it is really sore at night.    — Brigit B. (posted on June 27, 2001)

June 27, 2001
I too have this exact pain, athough for me, it lessens when I lie down and is much worse when I'm up and about. I would, of course, call your surgeon regardless...when I went to see him at 11 days post op, he could find nothing to account for the pain other than stomach muscles healing. I had no fever, no trouble eating, everything was "passing" as it should...i had no redness at the incision and no sign of hernia...so...the surgeon felt it was just an unusual sensitivity in the muscles as they heal. I have been getting a little better each day. Good luck!
   — Grace K.

June 28, 2001
I had a strange pain after surgery, and when I mentioned it at my surgeon's support group meeting, found that others had felt the same thing. I imagined that mine could have been caused by an open staple poking into me...that's how sharp it felt. Several others said that's what they thought they were feeling. The surgeon said, no, however. He said that what he thought we may be feeling could be a severed nerve. Evidently, severed nerves continue to "fire" (looking for their other half or something) and it feels like a sharp little pain. It was kind of strange but it went away within two weeks. Nothing to worry about.
   — Anne G.