Good morning everyone,

Did anyone have an abcess drain and sleep on there tummy? Just curious it's been a week with this thing and I'm tired of laying on my back but afraid to risk anything as I've been paranoid due to the in and out of the hospital for the past month

Update :

last week of Feb - surgery

First week of Mar - spasum

2nd week - found out i had a hematoma that would go away on its own ( admitted )

3rd week - it turned to an abcess so they inserted a abdominal drain ( admitted )

4th week - went to the clinic to remove it but the discharge was yellow and my wbc was high so back to being admitted we went

God willing April is better.

Anyone with experience please if possible share the details i would greatly appreciate it ?

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by ILIQUET

What surgery did you get? if you can update your sidebar with all your information. It helps when answering questions. you can do this in your profile section and click on surgery and you can add all the information. Good luck to you on that. I have surgery in 2 weeks.

Do you have a recliner? I had to sleep in my recliner for a couple of nights due to my drain, and it was tough. I'm a side sleeper, and once I could spend the night in my own bed on my side, life got a whole lot sweeter. Wishing you quicker healing and lots of luck.

Do you have a standard drain or a wound vac? I would sleep on my side with the wound vac as long as the connection wasn’t squished on the bed (if that makes any sense lol)

On 4/3/2022 at 8:16 AM, liveaboard15 said:

What surgery did you get? if you can update your sidebar with all your information. It helps when answering questions. you can do this in your profile section and click on surgery and you can add all the information. Good luck to you on that. I have surgery in 2 weeks.

I got a single incison gastric sleeve. Sadly I don't know how to do thay. I tried to update it all last night.

On 4/3/2022 at 10:53 AM, FutureSylph said:

Do you have a recliner? I had to sleep in my recliner for a couple of nights due to my drain, and it was tough. I'm a side sleeper, and once I could spend the night in my own bed on my side, life got a whole lot sweeter. Wishing you quicker healing and lots of luck.

I wish ! How long did you have your drain for if you don't mind me asking

Thank you for sharing btw !

1 hour ago, sweetheart181 said:

Do you have a standard drain or a wound vac? I would sleep on my side with the wound vac as long as the connection wasn’t squished on the bed (if that makes any sense lol)

No i have like a catheter connected at the end ?. I've still been sleeping somewhat on my back.

29 minutes ago, ILIQUET said:

How long did you have your drain for if you don't mind me asking

I had mine for fourteen days, but of course it felt like a whole lot longer.

1 hour ago, FutureSylph said:

I had mine for fourteen days, but of course it felt like a whole lot longer.

I'm going on 3 weeks : ( and it's still draining puss ?