Incision Questions

[dChapman 1]

I am 10 days post-op. I had some issues with my largest incision. I thought it might be infected. I went to the doctor right away, luckily it was not infected. The stitches fell off or popped off and my large incision is healing open. It looks disgusting. The dr is not too concerned with this. They just told me to keep it clean and covered.

Did anyone else have to heal with an open incision?

[lrhodes46 55]

Mine is the same way. I will be 3 weeks post op tomorrow. I didn't get to see my surgeon as he is out if town for the holidays but I saw the dr at urgent care and they put me on antibiotics. My friends dad is a doctor and he advised me to put heat on it. Said it will draw the infection out. If your surgeon is not too concerned I wouldn't worry

[healthymomof3 8]

Mine did the same thing, I had a two week follow up with my dr, he wasn't concerned either. He did say it could be because a stitch didn't disolve and was working it's way out. Later that day I could see it poking out(yuck!) It is not nearly as sore now but it is still gross!\

[Cooper123 93]

I'm also healing from a minor incision infection. my scar became red and started to hurt. I went to the doctor and he cut it and drained the infection and left it open. He prescribed me 10 days of antibiotics, that was last wednesday, the next days it got worse and slowly started to get better, today it was much better, no more Fluid coming out and it's not red anymore.

The best thing to do is to see your doctor as soon as you see something wrong with your incisions, it can save you a lot of trouble. I've read a lot of those port infection threads and it's really scary.

[SageTracey 608]

My major incision didn't heal as well as the others. On my first follow up visit, my surgeon cut off the yukky bits and pulled it together again with a steristrip. It is still my largest scar but really doesn't bother me and certainly doesn't affect getting fills.

[kah1213 311]

I was very lucky to just have single incision surgery. Healed without issue. Small scar in my belly button.