How long will the numbness last in my incision?
Most people complain of some numbness around their incisions especially in the leg incisions around the ankle. This comes from disturbing the nerves. In the chest, you can often have numbness where the internal mammary artery is used for heart surgery, which would usually be in the left side of your chest and breast area. This numbness becomes insignificant after a while and you will not notice it. However, occasionally patients have a particular hypersensitivity to their incision in which even a short rubbing of the incision is quite uncomfortable. There are medications to prevent this, but most of these symptoms resolve with time as well.
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