Skin Pain after bilaterals-my solution

I had double mastectomy on Jan 5 2010,and had horrible skin pain above the incisions. I could not stand anything to touch that higher chest skin! I read in one of the blogs that self massage helped and that so did compression. I started immediately gently rubbing the sensitive area and wrapping with an ace bandage. Now 3 months later, I rarely get the sensitive skin pain and as soon as I gently rub the chest area, the pain goes away. I just want to share this in case anyone else has this pain- I thought it was going to last forever.
I also am still wrapped in an ace bandage for excessive fluid. I had my drains out at 2 weeks, drained at dr office 4 times and he put drains back in April. They were just the light weight orange tipped ones and I had to be so careful with them- or ouchie!! Fora week after the drains came out, I stayed wrapped up tight day and night. Tried the prothesis and started filling up again. So now, still wrapped and staying wrapped until the last fluid is absorbed.
My aunt had this same fluid problem 13 years ago but not as long and not the skin pain. My mother had breast cancer twice, died of lung and bone cancer in '91 but auntie has been clear for 13 years. Auntie and I had microcalcifications not cysts like mom, so plan on following in auntie's footsteps.
My heart goes out to all of you who are fighting cancer and hope that you have a good support system as I have had.