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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Feb 14 7:43pm | Replies (54)

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Now it happened to me! I told my surgeon at the pre-op that I wanted nerve blocking. She was “huh? I’ll order it but you need to talk to anesthesiologist “ . So on the surgery day I told my anesthesiologist and he said “ if she (BS) doesn’t do it, I’ll do it,” After the surgery I woke up in pain, none of them did it probably because they didn’t know how. I had tons of pain med to control the pain. It’s been two weeks and one side is still badly bruised. How in the world that they don’t know what nerve blocking is? I had epidural 20 something years ago! The anesthesiologist graduated from UC Irvine, a well known medical school in Southern California! Just venting!

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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in Aug. 2024. Had unilateral mastectomy in Oct. I was given a nerve block so I thought “oh , pain is not bad at all!” Of course it wore off but I’m so thankful my doctor did the nerve block to get me thru the first few days. Only took Gabapentin and alternated Tylenol and Advil.
I can’t imagine why your doctor did not use nerve block !
I’m still having some nerve pain but hopefully it will be gone SOON !
Hang in there.

My very experienced top-of-the-line surgeon from Cedar Sinai did the nerve block himself and punctured both of my lungs while he was at it. That was a big mess.