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[sun_set_bravely]

My heart surgery scar has ached and twitched all day long. There is no physical reason that this should be, and yet it is. Do any of you have physical scars that get hypersensitive at times?

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[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My friend Jane has a mastectomy scar that sometimes tingles or aches. I'll ask her about it.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me. I'd be interested to hear what she says.

[bleppo.livejournal.com]

I have a scar on my head from brain surgery I had as an infant. It doesn't tingle or itch or anything, but I have noticed that grey hairs grow out of it. It also seems it's more prone to dandruff than the rest of my scalp.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Grey hairs, eh? That's fascinating! Brain surgery sounds serious; may I ask what it was for?

[bleppo.livejournal.com]

I was only 7 months old and in the baby seat of a shopping carriage. My sister, then three, jumped on the end of the carriage and knocked it over... me in it. I cracked my skull, but when they did an x-ray, they found a tumor in my brain. It was benign, but it was in a scary place, so they took it out.

(years later I had to have my sinuses x-rayed and I discovered that I have little metal clips in my head...)

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Thank goodness everything worked out.

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

My appendectomy scar from 1984 used to act up. It hasn't in years, but I'd feel some pain there sometimes.

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

More than 10 years ago, I slipped on some soda as I exited to the aisle in a theater. When I fell, I hit my right-side ribs on the wooden arm of the seat, which ended up under my armpit when I hit the ground. The impact was hard enough to knock the wind out of me, and I was in significant pain until I could get to the doctor the next morning and have (to my surprise) a spinal adjustment.

Now, when I'm particularly tired or stressed, the place where I hit my ribs twinges and aches.

[moriana90.livejournal.com]

I have scars from a horse riding accident that will tingle or ache a little, every once in a while, usually when it is really cold outside or there is a drastic change in the weather.

[paularubia.livejournal.com]

I have a scar from a deep cut I suffered when I stepped on broken glass when I was about 10. It rings my left big toe, and it tingles and throbs every once in a while, although it seems to do that more infrequently the older I get.

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

i have a scar on my forehead, from walking
into an awning. i was about 25, i think. for
around twenty years, it itched and twitched
and i had a numb spot on my scalp. finally,
the nerves all settled down, and i can't find
the numb spot now. ~paul

[theotoky.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes. It is bizarre-o and I've no explaination, but yes.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me! The only explanation I have for it is that it's a psychic scar as much as it is a physical one.

[resilient.livejournal.com]

The skin over my tattoo gets like that even though my tattoo is nearly a decade old.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

I broke my arm when I was about twelve; it throbs sometimes, even now.