Some yellow drainage..

[Wiltgy 0]

Hey everyone...I just returned home from having my VSG, I feel great and am excited about the future for the first time in a long time concerning my weight.

Anyway, I have 3 incisions that have Dermabond on them, then another that was for drainage in the days after the surgery. Since I got home last night, there's been a bit of yellowish green drainage..not much, be enough to make me worry. I don't have a temp, and am still on the antibiotics that they sent me home with. I called my patient facilitator and she said just keep an eye on it for the next day or two and if I start running a temp or the discharge increases, then see my doctor. Anyone else have something like this? How worried should I be?

Thanks for your input...I will get some pictures up soon!

~ John

[WingRider 1]

I had the same thing. My local PCP looked at it and informed me it was normal. It drained for about 3 weeks, some days very heavily and other days nothing. I took my entire course of antibiotics that I was given after surgery and I kept the wound dressed per the instructions my surgeon gave me. While the discharge looked gross, I never felt pain and their was no odor to the Fluid. I was so happy when the drainage stopped and the wound healed.

I wouldn't be worried.

Bill

[Wiltgy 0]

Thanks for the response! I talked to a couple people today, including my patient facilitator, and they all thought as long as I wasn't running a fever, no pain or foul smell, it should be fine. I had hardly any discharge today, so I'm feeling at ease with the idea that it's OK. Glad someone could relate...some parts of this process can be a bit intimidating on your own.

[trouble 0]

Not to scare you but I just had surgery on the 27th of July. That was a Tuesday on the following Monday I had the same thing. I never ran fever but when I called my doctor to tell him he had me come in just to be safe, when I got there he said it was infected put me on a really strong antibiotic and had to open the wound and pack it. I had to go back every other day and it just closed up in the last few days. The infection was a staff infection. He said it was not dangerous because we caught it so fast. Just for safety I'd go in and make them look at it. Is it red around the area it is draining. Even though I didn't have fever it was very very red around the incision that was draining. If yours isn't red around the incision it may be normal. I think the redness was the big sign of infection.

[Wiltgy 0]

I think I'll go in and have them check it out just to be on the safe side. There's not a lot of drainage this morning, and it's not red around the wound at all, but this is really nothing to mess around with. Thanks for your response!

[NtvTxn 1,262]

My book said call my surgeon if it had an odor or was milky. I called because i had a discharge that was not 'clear' - but it never did have an odor. Was more like pus. Ewwww! They wanted to make sure it didn't get to red around it. Had me put triple antibiotic ointment on it. It took a couple of weeks, but it was ok.

Hey everyone...I just returned home from having my VSG, I feel great and am excited about the future for the first time in a long time concerning my weight.

Anyway, I have 3 incisions that have Dermabond on them, then another that was for drainage in the days after the surgery. Since I got home last night, there's been a bit of yellowish green drainage..not much, be enough to make me worry. I don't have a temp, and am still on the antibiotics that they sent me home with. I called my patient facilitator and she said just keep an eye on it for the next day or two and if I start running a temp or the discharge increases, then see my doctor. Anyone else have something like this? How worried should I be?

Thanks for your input...I will get some pictures up soon!

~ John

[Wiltgy 0]

Thanks for your input! My drainage incision isn't sore or red around it (only irritated where the adhesive from the bandages I keep replacing are) and the yellowish "stuff" that's there is very light and diminishing. I'm confident it's healing OK...maybe I'm just being a bit paranoid but I don't want to leave anything to chance, so I may have it checked out anyway just to be safe.

This is good info for those feeling like I do in the weeks following surgery...thanks everyone!

~ John