I am 4 days post op...had my surgery on Wed the 11th. I am having problems with my drain. It keeps getting a stringy clot in the tube and I try to push it through and just have to work and work it...I'm only draining about 10ml now every 5 hours...don't know if that's bad or not. I know the less you drain the better...but this soon after? Any help would be appreciated...thank you.

Try milking your tube a couple times a day. My fluid varied and I had a drain for 8 days. Sometimes it was very light, sometimes heavy. Sometimes red, sometimes clear yellow. it was normal. As long as the fluid was not milky or cloudy and you have proper suction in your bulb, you should be ok. I would call my surgeon or surg asst and double check for peace of mind.

I had my surgery on Tuesday the 10th and have a drain also. It is slowing down quite a bit now.I am getting about 25cc everyday. But the color and everything looks fine. I too had a stringy block kind of thing. I think eventually it just fell down into the bottle.Make sure you are collapsing the bottle part before plugging the pour spout. It is the suction that makes it work. My surgeon said there could be little bits of tissue and fat that will come out. Hang in there, I am happy I will get rid of it on Monday. Good Luck

I should get mine out Wed...thank God...at 9am this morning from 11pm lastnight I drained 20 and then from 9am-2pm I only got about 10...it still has some strings in places but you can see fluid in it too...some is pink some is clear like

I had a drain as well, but I was specifically told not to milk the tube. My instructions were to empty the drain morning and evening, collapsing the bottle by rolling it up to force out the air and putting the plug back in before releasing the bottle. It was kind of icky to drain it, but mine wasn't that horrible. Of course, I'm more than 4 months post op, so that may affect my memory of the drain.