Port scar opened up!

[YoungNy 1]

I went to the gym last night, I did 1 hour on the tredmill which for me is about 2.5 miles. It was the most I've done since surgery. I thought all my wounds had healed. I haven't been wearing a bandage over my port for a few days now and everything was fine. I came home and felt pulling at the port site. I inspected it and noticed some yellow discharge and a slight opening in two places ( I pressed on it,the skin moved apart and I saw pink). I'm thinking I might have overdone it at the gym last night and caused my wound to open up again. I washed it very well and put a bandage over it. I've got an appointment with my doctor for Wednesday, do you think I'll be ok till then? Has this happened to anyone else?

[Kat817 19]

I would say call the Dr.'s office, explain, and find out if they want to see you sooner or not. They would be a better judge of whether you are going to be ok than we would. A quick phone call should let you know whether to worry and how to handle it!!

Good Luck!

Kat

[jls_27 0]

call ur doc right away! U dont want any germs getting in there and causing an infection.

[jfc193 719]

I trust that you have already made the phone call. The last thing you need is an infection.

[HeatherO 7]

While your waiting on what the doctor says, you should definitely follow your instructions for wound care that you got post surgery. The site needs cleaned and bandaged.

[rockbandster 0]

You need to go to the doc immediately and get it closed up- do not wait

[SeattleSweetie 5]

I inspected it and noticed some yellow discharge and a slight opening in two places ( I pressed on it,the skin moved apart and I saw pink). I'm thinking I might have overdone it at the gym last night and caused my wound to open up again. I washed it very well and put a bandage over it. I've got an appointment with my doctor for Wednesday, do you think I'll be ok till then? Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes, this has happened to me too (though not due to excercise, it just happened on it's own, probably from a weird movement I made or something).

When I saw the yellow stuff I started freaking out a little (okay, a lot!) so I went back to my doctor and had him look at it. He said it was fine and pretty normal. So long as there was no pain, swelling, redness, smell, etc that it was fine. He cleaned it up, taped some fresh gauze over it and said to keep it clean and change the guaze as needed, but otherwise not mess with it.

Let us know how it went when you saw him. Hope everything thurned out to be okay for you too!

[YoungNy 1]

They told me too keep it clean and keep a bandage over it until I came in to see him. But if it hurt or had other changes to come it early. By the time I went in on Wednesday it had healed up again. I got my first on time. 3 cc's in a 10 cc band! All is well. Thanks!

[SeattleSweetie 5]

Great, glad to hear everything went well for you! :thumbup: