Trouble With Healing

[strudel 0]

I am on day 10 and am having trouble with my wound. The wound on my left, lower side of my abdomen. I had my stitches removed and they all looked good but that one. It busted up, looking very red. There is a hole. I'm not sure what to do about it. Has anyone else had this problem before?

[Bedhead 158]

Not with laproscopic- but with my csection I had a seroma (giant Fluid pocket) build up under my incision and it caused it to break open. There was nothing that could be done other than draining the seroma and keeping the area very very clean!

You should definitely put in a call to your surgeon.

[UXgrrl 29]

Sounds like exactly what I went through. It was even in the same place that you describe, and when they discharged me from the hospital it looked fine... and then the scab fell off and left a scary-looking crater in my skin. I put Neosporin on it and covered it with a bandaid. I did this for about four days and it kept oozing thick green/yellow goop and seemed like it was getting bigger and redder, so I went to have it looked at.

I also made the mistake of googling MRSA and scared myself to death. I don't recommend it.

Anyway, the NP looked very carefully at it with the thing they stick in your ear and said it looked ok; it was full of "granulated tissue" which is a normal stage in healing. She thought I was allergic to the Neosporin (!) and prescribed some Bactracin to use instead, and told me to cover it with gauze and tape so air could get at it.

My skin reacted very badly to the tape I was using (I tried three different kinds because I couldn't get it to stick, so it started to get raw and bleed). Also, one night after my shower I was looking at it and noticed a stitch poking out of it. It looked like a piece of very thin fishing line. I pulled and it zipped halfway down the wound. I clipped off almost a half inch of suture material with a nail clipper. Miraculously, the sore immediately started getting better and was completely covered over about a week later.

At my 6 week followup at the surgeon's office I asked about it; the PA said that it sounded like I had an allergic reaction to the sutures. I've had surgery before and didn't have this trouble, but I've heard that you can develop allergies at any time to anything without warning.

So whether it was the sutures or the ointment or both, I don't know. Definitely get yours checked out, but it's probably fine.

[andersonlj 32]

I am now about 6 weeks out and I had the same problem with a couple area where they used the scope. I was having a little drainage from both areas. After I showered each day. I applies some bacitracin and a bandage to the areas. I was on antibiotics for 2 weeks after I was released from the hospital. I would call your surgeon and ask them about it. They may want you to come in or try an antibiotic ointment to see if this resolves.

[strudel 0]

Thanks for your imput. It gives me some relief to know others have had the same issue.