Hi everyone! I am 20 days post op and looks like I may have a small infection in my single incision (belly button). I went for my postop on Thursday and he told me the one thing they fear is infection in the incision at this point. Well this weekend I ended up with alittle green drainage from the incision and today I woke up with pain around the incision, So I called them and they believe its the start of an infection, so I'm glad I called right away!!

Other then this little problem, everything else is great, I'm, loving meshy foods and I even went out to dinner this weekend for my birthday and had shrimp cocktail and mash potatoes...No cake.. but hey it's all worth it!!!

This is definitely an infection. Make sure you are washing the wound with soap and water. You will probably go on another round of antibiotics. A few questions:

1. If you pinch the area is there a large amount of drainage?
2. Does it smell bad?
3. Have you had a fever?
4. Did ALL your stitches come out 8-10 days post-op?

Kristy, I am so glad you caught the infection early and got it treated! Happy belated birthday...isn't the sleeve a great birthday present?

It turns out that I didn't have an infection in my incision, my surgeon says it looks great ( I thought the incision itself looked good too, was just concerned with the pain around the incision and the light green drainage)..but however he wasn't okay with the fact that I had the pain in my stomach and was feeling yucky, so he had a catscan and blood work ordered right away. It all came back good and the blood work showed no infection. He seems to think that I may have be alittle dehydrated, so I rested today and made sure to get more Protein in and I feel much better.

As to the question of Jorge, I haven't had any fever and my incision is through my belly button so all my stitches are inside.The drainage has no smell to it, I laughed when my surgeon smelled it on thursday at my postop, but now I know why he did it.

Haha...patients always give us a funny look when we smell wounds. Ahhhh the wonders of medicine!