Can anyone talk to me about numbness after surgery sitting in a kids gym class worrying!

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I had my appendix out 2 weeks ago all went fine wounds nearly healed back to normal.

but since then i have a number patch of skin at the top of my thigh - its no where near any of the actual scars so i have no idea why this is. Is this a normal side effect of surgery ?? Its freaking me out!

it'll be a mildly bruised/damaged nerve that has some endings there. Might take a few months to recover!

I had to have injections over 10 minutes every 3 weeks into my thigh as part of my cancer treatment. The very first injection made the whole of my front thigh, from the groin to the knee, completely numb! I think the needle must have damaged a nerve. It took about 6 months to recover feeling in that area. There was no lasting damage but it was very odd. Nobody in the medical or nursing staff were concerned about it.

Thanks i feel a bit less worried now!

It can be, yes. It might have been something as simple as there was a clamp or some piece of equipment resting against that spot or how you were lying on the table.

It’s not quite the same, but I had knee surgery as a teen and the whole right side of my shin went numb after for about a year. Then maybe every 4 days or so I’d get this sensation of someone scratching their long nails down my shin. Really unpleasant and unnerving, but it eventually it went.

Mind - after the operation they said there had been an incident that my leg fell off the table and was dangling down - maybe that has upset the nerves! Hopefully it will clear up soon!