Consultation today.

They’re evening out and looking great. Will do a more in depth review later.

The last week has been a nightmare, a literal nightmare. Last Tuesday, I woke up to my inframammary fold being moist. I didn’t think much of it and went about my morning until I felt drops trickling down my stomach. I immediately took pictures and got on the patient app and got into contact with my surgeon’s nurse. I sent her in pictures of the current situation. I’ll include the updated pictures: warning they are graphic.
(5/21) At first, it just looked like a couple infected stitches or rather stitches that hadn’t absorbed and were starting to looked infected. I was instructed to take off the steri-strips on my right side where the infection started. There was a lot of yellow under the steri-strips but the yellow tint from the outside had been there for as long as I could remember after surgery. Dr Magge called me in an antibiotic and I had the first dose later on that evening. After the first dose, I spiked a fever, had body aches, chills. I was so sick for approximately 48 hours.
(5/23) I updated the nurse on the patient app with new pictures and to tell her that I had went through the physical signs of infection. My incision had opened more and I had put a butterfly stitch across attempting to stop it from separating anymore. My right side was super sore. It stopped me from driving from the 21st to the 24th.
(5/25) I got into the shower and the butterfly stitch came off while I was washing up in the shower. The opening got a tiny bit wider but the hole itself wasn’t covered in pus anymore so I assumed it was getting better.
(5/26) I showered in the morning like usual and didn’t feel anything off while I was washing the opened incision with soap and water. However that night, my husband was shaving my legs since I couldn’t and I had to hold that side and realized that the hole, wasn’t a hole anymore. There was something solid and black in the center. That’s when I started panicking.
(5/27) I procrastinated my shower a bit too long because the opened incision was starting to really hurt. I got in and when I got out, I just couldn’t pull myself together. I sat on the bed, not knowing what to do. I didn’t know where I put the nurses phone number and all I had was Dr Maggie’s number. I finally got up the nerve to text and I didn’t convey the seriousness of the situation at all so Justin had to call him and explain how bad my incision had gotten just in a matter of a couple days.
Dr Magge, on Memorial Day, scheduled me for an emergency surgery appointment to remove my right implant the following day.
(5/28) I had come to terms with needing to get the implant out. My results were phenomenal. Dr Magge did such a wonderful job with me. He called me his home run. He put me on his IG and there’s no doubt in my mind that he won’t do an excellent job the next go around. I have complete faith and trust in him. I am pretty sure he was more upset prior to the surgery than I was yesterday. No one could believe, even myself, how this incision went from a normal looking small stitch spitting to having to remove the implant.

Okay so the morning of Tuesday, 20po, I woke up and noticed my right under incision was moist- no color, no smell, just moist so I went back to bed and woke up a couple hours later. The next time I got up, I dripped a small trickle of yellow thin water fluid. It did not look or smell like pus.

At that time, I decided to text my nurse and send her photos that I had. She told me to take off the steri-strips on my right side. I did that in the shower because those steri-strips were on on. The steri-strips were bright yellow in places but I had noticed the yellowing right after surgery so I thought the dried blood and yellow were after surgery fluids trapped. Nothing hurt. Nothing smelled foul or sweet in the last 2+ weeks.

That is until I took off the steri-strips. Then all of a sudden everything hurt again. I lost the strength on my right arm, my back started to ache, the incision itself started to hurt a little bit but the incision site still didn’t smell, wasn’t red, not hot to touch. It was jut oozing pale yellow fluid...

My PS immediately called me in an antibiotic. I got my first dose of antibiotic, about an hour later.. I had a fever, body aches, chills... incision site still not red or hot or smelly but the fluid was thicker and milkier on the gauze but it still dripped pale yellow fluid uncovered. That lasted all night. I was freezing and sometime in the middle of the night, my fever broke. My back ache has not went away, I haven’t gotten back my right arm strength or full range of motion, but now my chest aches. I’m having trouble getting myself up from a laying position. I can’t put any pressure on right arm.

My breasts are not swollen or hot to touch. I’m 3 doses in on antibiotics (taken twice daily). My ribs hurt. My back hurts. My inside muscles are cringing when I need to get up.

The only thing I can imagine that led me here because I followed my post op advice of not lifting for 2 entire weeks BUT as soon as those 2 weeks were over, and I felt 100%.. I started cleaning. I cleaned for 3 days straight and apparently overdid it. It looks like a couple stitches opened up which allowed the bacteria in. The night before I had cut off a little of the steri-steps because the sides had loosened. I recovered with gentle paper tape and the next morning, drainage ????

They are still holding up very nicely. I do love them! I just hope the infection clears soon and I can start healing again.