Short Stabbing Pains

It's been a week since I've had my new implant of a Boston Scientific CRT device. It's been a few days that I have been feeling very short, stabbing pains on my left side where the device has been implanted. Has anyone ever felt this before? I didn't have this trouble with my first Boston Scientific device.

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Nerve Regeneration

by Grateful Heart - 2016-03-07 04:03:35


We see this concern a lot lately. Not everyone feels it and not with every surgery. I've had other surgeries and only felt it after a lead revision. It is short, quick stabbing pains at the incision site as you describe. I call it ant bites....that's what it feels like to me.

It is basically the nerves healing after being cut. They come and go and can last anywhere from about 6 months to a year but then they stop. The term is nociceptive pain. I never knew the medical term before...I just looked it up.

Here is a link:

http://www.woundcarecenters.org/article/living-with-wounds/wound-pain-how-to-manage-it

It states:

"Nociceptive pain presents as sharp or stabbing in nature. This pain is the response to tissue damage, which alerts the involved nerves to send a message to the brain indicating pain".

Grateful Heart

Pain

by snorko - 2016-03-07 08:03:20

Hi there,
I just had my replacement 2 days ago. I am experiencing similar pains. I remember feeling something similar with my first, and I was told that when they make or revise the pocket, tissue is being moved around and scar tissue is building.

However, my other concern is that you may have a lead that isn't working right. I think I might go in and have it double checked. Better safe than sorry.

Trisha

Let me add a bit of trivia...

by donr - 2016-03-08 03:03:16

...to what GH wrote.

This is all anecdotal, realize, but it is a benchmark to measure against.

Nerves regenerate very slowly & generally speaking do not reconnect to already existing nerves that have been severed by a surgery.

Back in November 1956 (yes, you read correctly) I had my left knee operated on by Henry VIII's headsman & his ax, using the normal headsman's walnut tree stump for a table. (Well, not really, but it seems like that compared to joint surgeries today since the invention of the arthroscope.)

I wound up w/ a wound scar about 5 inches long. following the curve of my knee cap. It was sewn up w/ very fine stainless steel wire that seemed to cut like razor blades till they were removed on day 10 post op.

The Knee was as large (or larger) than an American softball, complete w/ the stitch marks & red as raw hamburger.. 6 months later it was just as large, but the scar was at least considerably less noticeable. But something new occurred - the knee was numb on one side of the scar! It remained that way for many years. MANY years. Many years, like about 50! I never fealt a single ant bite the entire time.

It is now normal as far as sensitivity is concerned, but it sure took a loooong time.

Humans run - nerves creep!

Donr

Wow Don

by Grateful Heart - 2016-03-08 04:03:29


That's a lot of years. :-)

I think those ants know better than to bite you.

Grateful Heart

Little pains

by Hoser - 2016-03-08 12:03:28

Paced as of January 6th this year and yes, I got them too for a little while after my surgery.

I think it is due to the healing process like other posters here.

Hoser

Llord

by llord1120 - 2016-03-12 06:03:31

The second week after I had PM I felt the ant bites. It was so miserable. It has been 3 weeks since surgery. It finally stopped. At first I thought I was being shocked. So much better now.

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