post mastectomy

[Hope72]

I'm in my fourth week after surgery, which involved axillary lymph node removal of 11 lymph nodes.  I have tightness in my chest area and heaviness as the day progresses, which could very well be normal.  My biggest problem, aside from limited arm movement, which I'm doing exercises to correct, is several big blobs of skin under my arm, which I believe are probably scar tissue.  I try to walk a couple of miles every day and my arm rubs against the "blobs," which is quite uncomfortable.  My question is whether of not this is something others have experienced and whether the blobs will dissapate somewhat with time, and if not is this something that can be taken care of surgically that doesn't involve a lot of post-op recovery.  Thank you

[Hope72]

Gee, now I am concerned.  Hasn't anyone had a similar problem to the one I'm experiencing? Maybe I wasn't descriptive enough.  I have these soft lumps under my art following the lymph node removal and wondered if this was a common thing.  

[txgrl01]

I had a simple mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy 9 days ago and have a similar knot of skin under my arm.  I addressed the issue with my surgeon 2 days ago.  He THINKS that it may resolve with exercise and time but has told me that I may have to have scar revision surgery if it does not resolve within 3 months.
Check with your surgeon.  I'm pretty new at this but because my grandmother and aunt both had BC I am very agressive in my research and always give my doctors a list of questions at every visit.  There are NO unimportant questions when it comes to your outcome.  God Bless.