Post Re-Excision Seroma

Hi Mel,  my history is - diagnosed in December 2013 and then 6 rounds of Chemo followed by a month off then surgery - bilateral mastectomy 4 June 2014 and then approx.4 weeks later I commenced 6 weeks of radiation.  The Seroma just kept on developing.  I actually lost count of how many times I had it aspirated.  Fortunately because the area was numb from the surgery I never felt it at all.  My Radio Onc used to drain off mountains of fluid - I was quite embarrassed.  I said to him one day that I felt like a dairy cow and he said to me and he felt like the farmer.....lol!!!  My Breast Surgeon also aspirated it many times as did the Emergency Dept of St Andrews Hospital.  When I was admitted with the infection - the Doctor merely put in the Canula and held a kidney bowl underneath and it just ran out like water.  I like you had a very sore chest, raging headache and felt like sxxt.  When they did a blood test my white cell count came back at 24000 and its supposed to be around 10,000 to 12,000.  Once I was admitted by Surgeon prescribed Pethadine for me on the first night so that I would get a good sleep plus, I think it was 4 hourly IV's.  All I remember is a nurse bustling into my room in the middle of the night switching on lights and waking me up.  The Surgeon used to come and see me each day and aspirate it then too.  I'm not sure if I was a significant case or not but I had my surgeon completely baffled.  He told me he had been asking all his colleagues for ideas as to what he could do.  I also found out much later that my Rads Onc had also spoken to him in this regard.  One of the things I did do was go to the Lymphodema Laser Clinic here in Adelaide and had some Laser Treatment to the area which kind of helped too.  Hope yours all subsides in due course and you get on with your life.
Best wishes Karenne