Curious...........I had a bi lateral mastectomy and only sentinel node removal going on 3 years ago now. I had no radiation. I have some twinges of pain off and on, nothing serious. The pain is primarily in my axilla area. Wonder if the pain people experience might be more from the radiation? I had a second surgery to my chest wall to remove additional tissue left behind from the original surgery. That surgery has caused me more problems (but pretty much eliminated my lymphedema, which is great). The problems I experience now are the off and on twinges of pain and itching on my chest wall as well as an odd rash (going on 2 years now).