Hello VillaPaul001,
Welcome to the NeuroTalk Support Groups.

Have you mentioned the problems with numbness and burning pain to your doctor?

You could search for information regarding Post Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome and hypoesthesia. Hypoesthesia is reduced sensitivity.

I went hunting for you briefly. Burning pain is mentioned in many of the articles I just looked at regarding PTPS.

This abstract below from PubMed is not new, but it does lay out some time lines that may be helpful to you.

PubMed Article
Eur J Pain. 2001;5(1):89-96.
The morbidity, time course and predictive factors for persistent post-thoracotomy pain.
Gotoda Y1, Kambara N, Sakai T, Kishi Y, Kodama K, Koyama T.

You could do a forum search here at NeuroTalk as well. Just use keyword such as ' thoracotomy ' and that should bring up any past threads or post.

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It's a massive surgery and it might take some time to fully recover by the sound of it. 8 weeks isn't that long.


All the best to you.