Weeping skin on drainage site
Hi.
Tomorrow marks 3 weeks since my bilateral mastectomy with DIEP reconstruction. It also means I have had a drain tube sticking out of me for 3 weeks.
On Monday, the tube became blocked, so the home care nurse had to resort to using those bags that sticks to your skin.
I have had this bag replaced 3 times in 4 days (there was no reason to - and the nurse told me today that they generally replace them once a week), which has since resulted in the skin breaking where the sticky bits were, and it is now weeping.
The surgeon goes not want the train removed until I’ve had two days of drainage less than 50mls in a 24 hour period. I am not near there yet. Today was 70mls and it looks like tomorrow’s will be close to 100mls.
Have any of you had drains removed where drainage was still happening at over 50mls in a 24 hour period, or a different sort of drain put in. I really do not want to be wearing the sticky bag/drain anymore - it’s stings and it’s itchy.
thanks
Tomorrow marks 3 weeks since my bilateral mastectomy with DIEP reconstruction. It also means I have had a drain tube sticking out of me for 3 weeks.
On Monday, the tube became blocked, so the home care nurse had to resort to using those bags that sticks to your skin.
I have had this bag replaced 3 times in 4 days (there was no reason to - and the nurse told me today that they generally replace them once a week), which has since resulted in the skin breaking where the sticky bits were, and it is now weeping.
The surgeon goes not want the train removed until I’ve had two days of drainage less than 50mls in a 24 hour period. I am not near there yet. Today was 70mls and it looks like tomorrow’s will be close to 100mls.
Have any of you had drains removed where drainage was still happening at over 50mls in a 24 hour period, or a different sort of drain put in. I really do not want to be wearing the sticky bag/drain anymore - it’s stings and it’s itchy.
thanks
