Been having increasing pain, swelling over last three days. Today I had a fever, topped at 101.5. Surgeon told me to go to the ER. DX cellulitis associated with my new belly button. The pain is indescribable. Given pain meds but none for home (surgeon refuses to prescribe them) My surgeon was called and he refused to see me in the hospital, told the ER doc it was probably just a seroma, and said I should call tomorrow for an appt. CT results consistent with normal serous fluid post surgery Help
Hi I had a tummy tuck and a lipo about 3 1/2 weeks ago. I am really concern because I was healing very well but this past weekend my tummy stated to looks red and my body temperature sometimes drops to 96.5 or raises up to 102.5 I went to my doctors office an everything looks good besides the redness. The nurse dont understands the ups an downs of my body temp. What should I do?
My doctor says I do not need them. I had abdominal prolapse , hernia repair and a ton of scar tissue removed. I had entire large instine removed and have a J pouch. I had MRSA with vancomycin 15 years ago and have had shingles twice. This entire ordeal has not worked out like I was told. Im in pain and not on any medication other than ibuprofen
I had a staph infection a couple weeks after surgery on my insidious line thats now cleared. Ive been packing it and keeping it very clean. Ill go ahead and mention that I am a RN...five days ago my upper stomach plus my belly button started to swell and turned bright red and was supper hot. I made an apt with my doc. He prescribed me an antibiotic and recultured my small wound (not currently my problem). That was yesterday. Im now running a 101+ fever, and I overall feel horrible.
I am 4 1/2 weeks post op and had three drains two have been removed in that span but one remains, now I am experiencing a lot of fluid, fever and very sore and tender in my abdomen almost feels like it did the first couple of weeks following surgery. Is this normal? I am on antibiotics but still in a lot of pain. I hope I didn't mess anything up or tear anything. Other than this recovery has been smooth and healing very well. 14lbs of skin was removed from my abdomen.
I'm 15 days po op tummy tuck, last three days I got fever, temperature and headache only in evenings plus I still cant stand still and only short walk get me really tired that I have to sit down. ( can fever be connected with tummy tuck?) or i got only flu and it has nothing to do with it? I dont want to miss anything so trying to be carefull. Thank You
I had a full tt with open hernia repair where a mesh implant was used for repair. A general surgeon completed the hernia repair and my plastic surgeon the TT. About a week after surgery to 2 weeks post op I had a fever of 103.8 for a week. After antibiotics, fever went away. Now at 5 weeks post op my belly button seems to have taken a turn for the worse. My surgeon doesnt seem concerned. I will post a picture of bb at 4 weeks post and this morning at 5 wks post. Please let me kno what you think