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Hi! I’m new here and would really appreciate some help/advice. I’m 12wks out and have had several complications: allergic reaction to staples, cellulitis at incision, infection drainage twice and today I had to have another CT & started two new antibiotics because the dr thinks I have another infection under my incision. I have constant pain around my incision and over to the right side. It’s extremely painful and very sensitive to touch. Is it possible to get an infection under my incision 12 weeks later from just the incision, that seems completely healed on the outside?

Has anyone had similar problems? Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Cellulitis is a type of bacterial skin infection. Since it was at your incision and since you had the infection drained twice, it seems logical that they would treat it with antibiotics. So even though the incision seems completely healed on the outside, the bacterial infection may have entered you blood and spread throughout your body. Also the point of drainage is a point of penetration into your body and the infection might spread through this opening.

Once you come off the antibiotics, it is important to take Probiotics. Antibiotics kill not only the bad germs but also the good gut bacteria. Probiotics restore these colonies of good bacteria. According to the internet: The vast majority of bacteria are harmless to people and some strains are even beneficial. In the human gastrointestinal tract, good bacteria aid in digestion and produce Vitamins. They also help with immunity, making the body less hospitable to bad bacteria and other harmful pathogens. When considering all the strains of bacteria that exist, relatively few are capable of making people sick.

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Thanks James! I bought some Probiotics today and I will keep taking my antibiotics. Thank you!

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