Auxiliary Clearance

I had the same third tit after my axillary dissection. It looked gross and I tried massaging downwards but I think the best thing was the really stretchy one piece bras that acted like a compression bandage. It took a couple of weeks and because I had "shifted my tissue around" the radiation planning had to be re-done after the first week of rads. (My drain leaked at the entrance to my skin. I had to tape down face washers 10 times a day whilst still filling up the plastic bag. lol)

Letting it drain is best but sometimes they just don't - mine made 180mlls look like a small drop, it wasn't in such an awkward place but sloshing when you bend over isn't any good and it hung around for 12 months before finally fixed (surgery). Massage really helped but I should have started much earlier than I did. Good luck. 

hi ladies , thank you for you feedback, I meant too say I am seeing a lymphoedema therapist not physio , I am trying too let it drain on its own but its such a massive build up in the armpit, its very hard too sleep with and the pressure is very uncomfortable. I deal with the public and trying too help them and reaching across makes it hard.

Massage can help with a seroma but you need a lymphoedema therapist rather than a physio to show you what to do. Perhaps your local hospital can help? 

It is better to let it drain Ninja 

So have just had my second drain today, they are draining around 180 ml both times. Is there some sort of massage I can do to help slow this down until I see my physio next week ?

Hi @Ninja, plenty of support here. It's a truly great community with lots of helpful advice. 

Check in and ask questions whenever you need to @ninja!

Hi , so saw my surgeon yesterday and the lump did turn out too be a Seroma, so having it drained via a ultrasound on Thursday, hanging out too get it done as it looks like I have grown a third boob :-) 

So I have got my final results and all of the cancer has been taken , so happy too hear that but due too the fact they found two of my nodes with cancer and the grade they have chosen for me too start chemo next month, once every three weeks for six months before starting Radiotherapy. It was a stage two grade three, so blessed that it was diagnosed as early stage, and I have my cat too thank for that as she sniffed it out. Ninja actually is my cats name and that is the reason I chose Ninja a my user name.  we both have been through so much together over the last 12 years.

It has not sunk in as yet that this is actually happening but maybe once I start the chemo it will be a different matter.

So blessed that there is the online forum too speak too those who have gone through this journey or are going through it 
 

Hi @Ninja. You could be describing my axilla, but mine came up almost 3 months post surgery, including axillary clearance. Scared the living daylights out of me. US showed that it was a seroma, or fluid collection. It reduced in size slowly for a long time,  then suddenly I could no longer feel it. Hope yours doesn't hang around too long. 
Hope you're feeling reasonable after your appointment today. Thinking of you