Hi Glammy....I was hoping you were going to have an uneventful and pleasant first shower. I don't know why you are hurting more after showering than you were before the shower, although I have a few thoughts. Perhaps removing any bandages you may have been wearing irritated your chest and nerves, all the movement required to take a shower gave your chest too much of a workout which made it hurt and pissed of your nerves, or it could be the warm water set your nerves off to give you that electrified root canal feeling, or the soap irritated your incisions which in turn irritated your nerves.

The first showers I've had after surgery have left me sore, but it's more of a fatigued soreness. It never made any of my nerve, muscle, incision, or scar pain any worse after a shower than it was before the shower. I would contact your doctor's office on Monday and let them know what happened and see if they have any suggestions. If the electrified root canal feeling continues to be a problem there are medications that can help with nerve issues like Gabapentin which you can ask your doctor about.

I'm chuckling over your electrifed root canal analogy. It's a clever and accurate description of the nerve pains I've had from time to time. It reminds me of something I used to tell people right after my double mastectomy when they asked me what the pain felt like. My description was it felt like somebody scraped out everything in your chest with a grapefruit spoon. I hope this feeling goes away for you quickly. Keep that awesome sense of humor because it does help to laugh about things!

Update...Was just reading through a different post of yours where you mention your stitches and surgical glue were removed. With all my surgeries, except for one exception, my doctors purposely said not to remove the surgical glue and leave it in place to detach from my skin and fall off on it's own. The one time a nurse removed the surgical glue from my chest was in December 2024 after the first of three surgeries for my second round of breast cancer. She did it without telling me and it hurt and burned and I made her stop when she was about 75% done. Later that day it started to hurt/burn even more and the incision opened cause it wasn't healed well enough to have the glue removed and I also had a hematoma that was putting extra pressure on the incision line. I've also had incisions open up when my stitches were removed too soon and also too late. Keep an eye on your incisions and if they do open up at all contact your doctor asap and take pictures of them daily to show the changes to your doctor. This probably won't happen, but after I remembered about this I wanted to mention it to you just in case.