Seriously, this post is going to be a bitch-fest!!!
So...remember the fucked up c-section wound? Well, has it healed? Fuck NO!
For the first 4 weeks there was huge progress and the wound is now about 1.5 cm deep x .5 cm wide with a "tunnel" off of it about 1.9 cm deep. And for those 4 weeks I wore a wound vac (very cumbersome and depressing to have to carry that 24/7). Anyway, 3 weeks ago the "tunnel" (which had been 1 cm week prior went to 1.5 cm) so I instantly asked doctor for a CT scan or MRI, just to see WTF was going on behind the wound. He said the wound had improved a lot from day one (which it had) and that it would improve following week. It didn't. At the same time he took cultures from inside because I smelled something funny (he didn't). Culture came back positive for staph, yet I was on antibiotics (the right one to cover staph) from week prior which said to me the antibiotics aren't working. He sent me another round of antibiotics.
And then 2 weeks ago it still hadn't improved and I asked why I was even wearing the wound vac if it wasn't improving. He agreed and removed the wound vac and had me pack it twice a day with a gauze that has silver in it (I think silver nitrate or something antibacterial). I did so. No easy task as the entry to wound is teeny - can barely push the head of a Q-t.i.p inside.
Well, the wound is still no better and there is a lot of drainage for such a small wound and the drainage looks "a little cloudy," which is suspicious of infection (meanwhile, I'm on the antibiotic).
FINALLY, this morning he agreed to order a CT scan (I don't know - but I'd feel better if they could see something in there to ease my mind) AND he put me back on the wound vac. Needless to say, I'm depressed to be on this machine again. Oh and he's sent me another antibiotic to take with the current one.
If the CT scan (Friday morning) shows nothing and the wound is no better I'm going to have to see OB and have surgery so they can open it back up, clean it out and put the wound vac on AGAIN.
Honestly, I curse this c-section!!!
If ANYONE out there in cyberspace reads this and has experience with a c-section wound and how much time yours took to heal and if you wore a vac or packed it, please share details with me. I'd like to feel less alone in the world here. :(
As for my little princess, she's beautiful and wonderful - thank the universe for THAT!
9 comments:
Oh sheesh. So sorry you're having to deal with this - that sounds like a nightmarish recovery. So incredibly frustrating! Hope everything heals quickly and well - or at least quicker and better... Thinking of you.
OMG...how did I miss your last post. I've been dying and wondering where you are and there you are and I miss it! She is absolutely beautiful! How wonderful! Though, not about the c-section wound. I have no advice. I'm so sorry. I hope this finally does it! Hugs.
This sounds like a lawsuit - how insane is that?! I had a c-sec but it healed up fine, in a week I wasn't thinking about it at all. I think I had to go in at one month for a routine "check" of the wound, but it was all fine. THinking of you and hoping for the best - thank goodness the baby is perfect!
Have you been seeing a wound specialist? Or a wound care RN at the local hospital?
Do you have MRSA? If your doctor hasn't said anything, ask.
I am so very glad that you got the little baby girl of your dreams. You are going to be such a great Mommy! Once you get this all cleared up, you will be great! Hang in there!
When I had my laproscopic myomectomy to remove my uterine fibroids, I had something similar happen to me, though on a smaller scale. One of my internal stitches had not dissolved, and my surgeon needed to pull it out. Once he did that, my wound healed. They are clear, so they are hard to see, but you might be able to feel it. HTH.
Anonymous -
I may have MRSA. We'll see what the culture comes back with in terms of drug resistance. God, I hope not but it's starting to look that way.
And I do see an Infectious Disease doctor.
Wow, that is seriously awful. If it makes you feel any less alone, I had to work with an infectious disease specialist after my c-sect in October. After my incision ruptured et al, I ended up with C Diff as the antibiotics I took (clindamycin) to protect against infection killed off all the "good" bacteria in my gut. Took about a month more to clear it up. Hang in there!!
Connie/sp08 on IVFC
I've had myomectomy, and c-section.
Was prescribed Azithromycin after myomectomy. Spouse had me take Ciprofloxacin in addition to azitromycin because cipro covers very wide range of infections... and also indicates well for tissue.
For c-section... did the same thing. I took cipro in addition to antibiotic prescribed by dr.
Hope the combination of meds he prescribed this time will work.
Good luck, I pray your wound heals very soon.
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