I have had many NF tumours removed over the years, ranging from the size of a small pea up to 5 cm. In April 09 I had 2 small tumours removed from my right side, just below breast height. This operation gave its own complications, because I then experienced a haematoma in the breast and I had 1.5 pints of blood drained off my right breast.
Subsequent to this NF tumour removal and then the draining of the haematoma I began to experience a lot of discomfort and swelling just below the site where the lump was removed.
Over the next 12 months I had many scans and check ups but still the pain continued to worsen. This was accompanied by an ever increasing dosage of pain killers which in their own right were so debilitating that my quality of life was pretty poor.
I guess that the thought was that the pain I had been experiencing was somehow related to the lump I'd had removed or maybe from the clean up of the haematoma afterwards. I was seen by a Pain Management Team on quite a few occasions and had several 'nerve block' procedures. Although the nerve blocks appeared to work at the time, their effects never lasted more than a few days.
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