Do you grind?

[Yaps]

When you are trying to sleep? I can hear grinding sounds from my incision? Some sharp pain until I change positions.. is this a normal occurence? Even after a year? And to touch the incision some areas ...oh -boy ..dont touch??? Anyone???
Thankyou Yaps

 

[Ross]

Nope. Something isn't right with this picture if you still are after a year.

 

[tobagotwo]

I totally agree with Ross. Either go back to the surgeon or to an orthopaedic doctor.

Grinding is movement, and the sternum should be healed long ago to only one piece, meaning there would be no pieces to grind against each other. Your incision should be only a thin line and a memory from long ago - no pain should be lingering.

No picking up or carrying animals until you know what's going on.

Get thee to thy physician.

Best wishes,

 

[Rich]

Ditto with Ross and Bob.
Normally your sternum should be fully healed in about ten weeks.
Something is very wrong.

 

[hensylee]

I don't grind. But there are some tender spots if I gently press - so I stay away from them. (it's been 4 1/2 yrs). Ask your dr on next visit - if it's really, really uncomfortable, ask now.

 

[Les]

I'm the same way as Ann...Tender spots exist, after 9 years. No grinding though. Get it checked out!

 

[Yaps]

hmmm

hmmm

I had assumed it was normal.. I will see the the surgeon. Thanks, Love Yaps

 

[Birky]

sternum

sternum

I am over 1 year post op and I still get a funny movement at times. Can't explain it. One of the twins accidently hit me in the chest last week and I thought I would go through the roof it hurt so bad. This is where I still have a wire. I had 3 taken out but not this one. I can actually feel it when I press on that area. I don't think anyone is ever the same once they are dissected.

 

[Les]

I don't think anyone is ever the same once they are dissected.

THAT is certainly the truth!

 

[tobagotwo]

Thank you, Hensylee, Les, and Birky.

I didn't realize there might still be tender spots after so long a time in a normal postop. Hopefully not at the level of pain yaps was referring to. Is it the nasty ends of those #5 wires, as Birky seems to suggest?

I guess each surgeon wires them a different way, or may relegate that task to a surgical intern. I have eight #5s, but they don't seem to bother me, so I'll just count myself lucky again.

Yaps, there still shouldn't be anything rubbing against anything else inside your chest, especially if it's enough to produce a grinding noise. I suppose it could be just a loosened wire, rubbing on its moorings, but that doesn't sound too good, either. You're sure it isn't just a snoring canine that's producing those harmonics?

Best wishes,

 

[Birky]

wires

wires

I have seen my xrays of the sternum and the one I am referring to seems to have a longer tail on it then the others that are left. Should have had them all taken out. Seems that is the same area where I have all the keloid. I think that was the 1st time that one of the kids came in contact with that area. I don't remember having this kind of problem with the hysterectomy which was kind of a large incision. I guess it is because we are dealing with bone and not all tissue.