Open and leaking incision concerns

[Carla K 0]

My surgery date was January 9, 2008, and I still haven't had a successful fill yet. I have an appt. tomorrow morning to it done under fluroscopy because the dr. had a heck of a time trying to get the needle in the port on first try. After this failed attempt, the dr. had me go and get an x-ray done, and apparently everything looked fine, and now I have this appt. tomorrow.

The incision over the port has been open since the steri-strips came off over a month ago. :sad: And it was infected for a while, but was fine after anti-biotics. Anyway, the incision is still open a little and has been leaking all along. Not to be gross...but it looks like my insides want to be on my outside, and I'm really scared about what that could possibly mean.

Has anybody else had this problem...with the incision over the port being open like this??? I can't tell you how worried I am about going in there tomorrow morning, and having them tell me that they can't do the fill because of the open incision.:smile2:

[taz 2]

Hi Carla K. I have had quite a bit of trouble with this. Not just where my port is. I had my gallbladder out Jan 8th. I had lapband surgery Feb 8th. It seemed I had trouble with all my incisions. I tried to wear a bra 3 weeks after gallbladder surgery. This really irritated two of my puncture wounds. Then I tried using Neosporin on them and bandaids. Wrong. They wouldn't heal because they stayed moist. My doc was not pleased. He said they had to breath to dry up. However, when I woke from being banded I had thick layers of gauze over one wound. I guess he didn't think it neede to breath all the time. Anyway, after having to wash the blood out of my gowns constantly for the last two months this is what I found helpful. When showering I wash my tummy with Soft Soap using my hand. For me Neosporin has been helpful. I just put a thin layer over my wounds. If I need to have them covered because of needing to wear clothes and such silly things, I use a thick layer of gauze taped on with the tape that is used for that. I still have oozing 2 months out but not so much from infections. It has been an interesting road. Good luck with this. I appreciate it that this can be very frustrating.

[jesces 2]

So this is ok? Mine was a little oozy when I went to the dr. Even more now. It soaks my gown, shirt, and he told me to leave it open to air? What do I do, carry around gauze and mop it up constantly?

He told me not to use butterfly bandaids, but I tried,.......should I take it off? It seems to help some, and they are sterile, so I don't see the problem.

Please helP?

Two months out and you still had leakage...........oh yikes.

Crystal