Post op infection - How do I heal from this?
Hi to all
I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend and are travelling well.
Would love some feedback on whether anyone got infections after lumpectomy or axillery Node Clearance.
Since the second op, 17 days after the lumpectomy and failed SNB, about 5 - 7 days after I think it was I started to feel I was going backwards, more pain, less movement in arm etc. After a while I had been checking the lumpectomy and axillery scar and drain wound to see if I could see any redness or infection. Eventually I found a massive red patch the size of a small apple from my nipple and underneath to the bottom of my breast.
This redness is nowhere near the surgery sites, it is not the usual mastitis redness, it is got ridges running down it and the nipple gets hard at times almost like rubber. I went on antibiotics for 10 days, little improvement. So went off them for a week.
Saw my chemo doctor, told her I was still feeling crap, best word to use, lol and she sent me back to surgeons to get it looked at and cleared up before chemo on the 5th August due to start.
They saw me Friday and they put me on 2 different antibiotics to take combined etc, and said it was a guessing game with the bug involved causing redness, heat, unusual skin texture. I also have 2 seromas. One around top of my breast and one in axillery area. They tried to drain but with no success.
So they basically said that I need to go back Tuesday and they will hospitalise me if it hasn't started to settle.
Well it's day 3 and no sign of it lessening. I feel sick and crappy as the day goes on every day, pretty much had the same level of sickness since this second op. I don't know if it's the seromas or the infection or both.
Thanks be to God, that I am not severely ill with the infection, but something is definately not right.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar.
Appreciate your comments..xxx