Injury after implants?

[hoteacher]

I had breast augmentation five weeks ago. Was told by the doctor to completely stop all weights and cardio for three weeks, no exceptions! Went back to the gym after three weeks and started back in to my old routine but lost a tremendous amount of strength, and flexibility...accepted it and kept going, trying to build back up. About a week and a half ago I started having some chest pain...seemed to be under my implant on only the right side. Had a cold at the time so I thought it might be plurisy which I have had in the past. Seemed to get much worse with weights so I backed off upper body. Stretching seemed to help, so I started to stretch more. Today I decided to do legs, not bad pain until I decided to stretch my chest after my workout. Stretching seemed to feel good, but as soon as I stopped, I was in excruciating pain. I could hardly stand up. Feels like a stabbing under my implant. Called my plastic surgeon and they told me it was likely just nerves regenerating. Went to my local doctor as well..he thought I had a blood clot so I had a scan done and my lungs are fine. Still have a bit of a cold and it is very painful to cough and breath deeply...To me, it feels like a tendon or muscle has torn, but my implants are under my muscle and this pain is definetly under my implant. Very frustrated with already being down for three weeks and now having to take more time off. Going to go see a sports medicine person tomorrow. Thanks for any advice or help you can give!

 

[Sassy69]

Ouch. I had also asked my doc about the training after my surgery - I also did under the muscle. I'm not sure how you were able to go back into the gym after 3 weeks. I didn't even lift my arms above shoulder level until well after my 2nd week. I experienced some of shooting pains from nerves regenerating - they sucked but they werent' debilitating.

I don't recall exactly when I was able to get back into the gym w/ full energy again - I started back slowly just doign walking cardio mostly because my range of non-pain-generating motion was pretty small for the first month.

As far as pain under the muscle itself, obviously the implant is trying to "settle" into the little pocket the doc makes for it and there is goign to be adjustment with the scar tissue resultign from the surgery. This is where doing any kind of chest workout just plain old felt weird. I had mine done in mid Jan of 2000. By April 2000 I had started training for a BB competition and still had weirdness when I did chest. I'd get involuntary muscle spasms whenever my pecs had to kick in to work. Also happened sometimes on back exercises towards the ends of some of my sets when I got tired and other muscles would start working to compensate for my tired back muscles. Most of this was just part of the pec muscle just trying to accommodate the implant, breakign up scar tissue and dealing w/ the nerve regeneration. It felt like my pec muscles were very tight.

I would continue to seek your doctors' advice because I never experienced pain like you describe. Lettign your body accommodate these big "things" displacing your muscles is very traumatic so you have to take it really slow.

That doesn't really explain your pain - maybe you pulled somethign under the implant/ around the muscle that wasn't ready to give yet? Obviously I would seriously hold off on any heavy sort of training and just let your body heal, maybe focus more on cardio stuff. I'd be interested tohear what the sports doc says.