yesterday i had my staples taken out, 5 day's after my c-section. last night my nether-region felt puffy and hard, i pushed on it twice, and as i was about to stand up, my incision broke open - fluid and blood started pouring out of it. .. i went to the er, and the told me to keep it dry and to change the padding regulary. . .. they didn't do anything else except bandage me. .. . told me that i would be fine. .. i can't find any information on this happening. . .. does anyone have any advice or web links to share. . . .sorry this is so long. .. . i'm scared and worried. up untill a little while ago the drainage from it was minimal, then i layed down to take a nap and felt a burning sensation, when i got up my pad was soaked threw.. . . ohh one other thing. . . .before the incision broke open, i was so soar, but as soon as it broke open.. .i was in no pain whatsover.. . and now its a diffrent type of soarness. .. . like a crampy i just got cut feeling ↓
I had a similar experience. I had a collection of blood behind my incision due to a drug interaction with my anticoagulent meds.The pain was amazing. Dr. did not believe me at first that I was in bad pain and nurses gave me more Motrin. The Dr. was eventually aware of this and removed a few staples, the blood gushed out. I bled for two weeks afterward- a lot of blood. I am now 5 weeks post c-section and "oozing" fluid that two drs. say is "okay".
I see other posts "When can I have sex?" and I think..oh my G** sex now? yeck!
I guess so long as you do not have a temp and no redness or swelling, you are okay. Personally I am not upset about hte emergency c-section, but am about my lack of healing at this point.
Sorry no real answers here, just plenty of co-sympathy.
Hi Sarah, I had an emergency c-section 3.5 months ago to a beautiful baby girl. She was in the NICU for five weeks, and I ended up being in the hospital for two weeks due to complications with my incision. After a series of high fevers, high blood pressure, my incision popping wide open after the staples were removed, blood gushing out of it, a series of different techinques to "pack the wound", a second surgery to clean up the incision site, and a staph infection I finally got to go home (after which I had to report to the wound care center daily to get the wound packed). Blood did gush out of my incision a few times while I was still in the hospital. The nursing staff didn't seem to think it was a big deal. Just a pocket of fluid breaking open and releasing itself. It didn't hurt when it happened (anymore than usual at least). They called it a hematoma. I'm not a doctor and can't tell you if this is what you had... but it sounds similiar to what I had, so I hope this helps! ↑
I had a similar experience. However, my staples were removed 3 days after my surgery, my wound opened about 4 days after that. I was also in pain prior to the wound opening. When it finally opened I felt soooo much better.
The bummer was that I now had to have my wound packed and bandaged daily. The wound was 6 cm long and 3.5 cm deep. They also found a tunnel that was 5 cm long. The good news is there was no infection. The bad news is I'm still healing and have to schedule my day around getting my wound checked. It is however healing fairly well according to the nurses. They are packing it with a substance called Accticoat. They also encourage me to take Vitamin C, drink lots of fluids, and eat extra protein.
I was wondering if this could have been prevented if my doctors would have done something differently. ↑
Nearly four years ago, when I had my daughter, my incision opened up the day I got home from the hospital! Blood was pouring out of the incision so we went back to the OB and she cleaned it out and packed the wound. I had a visiting nurse twice a day to repack the wound which was very deep but not too wide and fortunately, not infected. The healing process put a bit of a strain on my first weeks home with my baby but after six weeks, I was healed. I think anyone who has incision trouble should definitely have their own OB/gyno look at it and not leave it up to ER docs. Also, this is just my opinion, but if you don't believe that things are ok when your doctor says they are, I think you should demand an explanation from your docs as to why it's ok for you to be oozing fluid after several weeks. With a new baby to care for, the last thing anyone needs is the worry that things aren't right. ↑
eek.. I had a section just 11 wks ago. i had no problems at all with my incision. I didn't think it was very common to have complications, but apparently it is..Sounds pretty scary and painful. I would definitely get my doctor to take a second look. ↑
take it easy. i hope you feel better. i am mother to nine children just had number 9 10 weeks ago by c section #3. so far so good but my recovery hard also. so much scar tissue caused my bladder to attach itslef to my abdomen wall so that was the most painful part. c sections are very scary and take alot of extra care so stay off of your feet don't do any stretching or pulling. regular take it easy stuff. hope you feel better. i'm trying to heal for number 10. jrae@aol.com ↑
I had a csection on 3-8-05 and 4 hours after coming home from the hospital ended up in the er with fluid running running out of my incision. The ER doctor told my OB that they should have left the stables in longer and admitted me. I stayed in the hospital until the next morning then my OB released me with more antibotics. They say as long as I am not running fever that I do not have an infection. I am so worried that something bad is going to happen and they are just letting me sit here. Has anyone else gotten a response from the OB like this? ↑
I had a c-section on 3-17 and spent the next four days in the ospital. On the third day my incision began leaking fluid and blood and I was told it was normal. Later that night it leakd more and dripped on the floor and ran down my leg. On the 21st I was due to go home with my baby, my staples were removed, I went to sit on the toilet and blood gushed out of my like a hose spraying. I must have lost two cups of blood. My OB came to see me and told me it as a hemotomia and that my leakage would taper off and sent me home. Four hours later I got up from feding my baby and felt blood running down my leg, when I went to the bathroom I sneezed, my incision burst wide open and my abdominal wall and bowel were visible. I was taken by ambulance to my econd choice hospital and underwent the most painful emergency surgery imaginable. This (I hope is an uncommon occurrence) but I would definitely get an OB opinion or if your case is lke mine and you are scared, GET A SECOND OPINION!!! Good Luck in future. ↑
Its been 6 months since my c-section and I still have an infection going thru a whole bunch of stuff right now meanwhile my ob says I was stressed wasnt infected, got a second opinion Mri and sure enough its still opened and infected. I have been feeling miserable for months now I know why ↑
I had a c-section on 3/31 a week later I was back in my OB's office w/ an open, infected incision. A few days later the other side of my incision also opened up. My husband is now packing it twice a day for me and I have to go see my OB every other day. She says it takes awhile because the opening must heal from the inside out. The packing takes away the pockets of fluid that are leaking out. Unfortunately, the openings must stop leaking entirely before it is healed. Apparently, this could go on for a long time. It's been over a week for me already and I am hoping it doesn't take too many more weeks. ↑
I had a c-section on 2/21/05, my incision opened and i had 3 openings inside- one was 9 1/2cm, 5cm, and 5cm, the nurse was out daily for 4wks, then my husband started packing it. after 8wks, i am done with the packing, but now the outside must heal, when i was at the doctor she "ruffed up the skin" she rubbed it with gauze until it bled then took twisser to "tweak" the skin, the outside is now started to heal. it has been a horrible ordeal, and i still have no idea why this happened. ↑
I had the same problem with my C section and had to have a home care nurse come in everyday to clean and change the wound. for 2 week then (My husband did it when she wasn't there) It took about a month to heal. I thought I was busting open everytime I moved but it healed pretty good thanks to hubby's care in packing. ↑
My baby girl was born on April 10th by c-section. A week later I woke up covered in body fluid and blood, we went to er and they said it was a good thing a pocket of fluid had developed and needed to drain. The following Monday I went to my OBGYN who packed it and said to take care of it twice a day. We are almost two weeks into the care and now it smells funny and must be scrubbed out 3 times a day with gauze and re-packed. The Dr. asked me to do it myself midday - but I tried to touch it and it scares me so much. I feel like passing out and just keep crying - I am very lucky I have a great husband who is doing the packing for me and will come home for lunch to do it. I am still scared and on antibiotics now - I feel mutated and like I am rotting inside. This has been so hard trying to be a new mom when you have this opening of about an inch and are worried about infection. Everyone seems to think it's no big deal, but for me its hell I feel completely unattractive and can not wait for this to be over. It has to heal from the inside out before it can be re-stitched. Thank you for giving me a forum to express this nightmare, it helps to here others have gone through the same thing. ↑
please go have it checked out...sounds bad, ima serious. I had a c-section and took a long time 2 recover but its been 8months..ima good since 2 months ago. I was sewed..dr. did a good job but my body was super weak i guess ↑
Tristian,
Hang in there, it took my wound 9wks to heal from the inside out. The smell may be the packing you are using, i was using Aquacell- and it smelled horrible, i will never forget that smell. are you taking pain meds before the packing. I found that it helped. write back and let me know how you are doing ↑
Thanks lisa - doing much better. Got re-stitched back up last week. Hopefully it will not re-open.
Again thank you to all - this forum helped so much! ↑
I am SO sorry to hear about what you had to go through. I had a c-section 5 yrs. ago and the same thing happened to me. It's an infection. On April 11th of this year I had surgery to remove adhesions from my previous c-section. (my uterus was attached to my abdominal wall, the surgery preformed was more or less another c-section) Well I started running a fever of 103.7 the night I came home from the surgery. Went back to the hospital and started gushing fluid again while I still had the staples in. It was another infection so the Dr. sent me back to the OR and opened the wound and cleaned it out. I have now been off work for two months with a hole in my stomach that has to be packed daily with quaze and Dakins solution (bleach and saline solution). There was tunning as well so the total size was 10cm long and 5cm deep. It started off taking 75 inches of quaze and now takes half that. This has been the most painful thing I have ever been through and I feel for all of you that have incountered the same pain. ↑
Same thing is happening to me. I delivered on 4-12-05, and my incision broke open 5 days after coming home. I am still draining fluid and blood. I have a nurse visit me once a day to pack the wound, and visit my OB once a week. It is so frustrating! The incision isn't healing and I'm really getting sick of having a hole in my tummy! It started of being 8.5 cm deep, and has only healed to about 5 cm, and now it has stayed there for over 2 weeks. I am just praying it will go away soon. The nurses are using some sort of alginate, made of seaweed, to pack it...no smell...so that's good. The thing I'm looking forward to when it's over is taking a normal shower! ↑
TO MN MOM-Hang in there same thing happened to me however, i had a hole that was 9.5cm to the right and 5cm to the left. it took 9wks of packing to heal-i know how frustrated you are. ↑
I had my incision open because of bleeding. And, I thought I was receiving poor medical care. Upon removing my stables, my Dr. noticed the blood clots and prescribed home nurse care which entitled a nurse to stop by my home everyday to stuff my incision so that it would heal from the bottom up, not allowing the incision to close until everything was clear and okay. I have to do this for at least a month. So far things are going good. I have one week left. ↑
This is actually happeneing to me right now. I had a c-section of 6/3, released on 6/6, had a checkup to remove the staples on 6/8. While the Dr removed the staples, my incision started to gush clear, then a little blood. It never healed where the staples were, but the fluid needs to drain. This happened to me the last time I had a c-section in 2002, where the stitches busted opened. I was given a antibiotic then, but not now...wonder why? I will certainly call my OB on Monday and request it. I go back on Thursday for a re-check. In the mean time, my husband is cleaning it out for me twice a day with a saline solution and peroxide...no packing needed. It is probably 1 1/2 inches wide and a little less than 1 inch deep. I get grossed out everytime I look at it...Thank God for hubby. He thinks it looks like it is healing from the inside out. Guess I'll know more on Thursday. It does help to know that this is more common than you think. I just wish it was over...I'm tired of freaking out about a hole in my belly and wearing a pad to absorb the fluid as needed. ↑
SS you will be okay. I thought i would never heal. I had my baby on 12/14/04 an my incission entirely heald about 9.5 weeks later. I know it is a long time. I was walking around with a pad on my belly for at least 6 weeks. I was discouraged and horrified.I thought nobody in teh medical profession cared. I think that incisions healing slowly is no big deal to surgerons. They really should explain this better to their patients.It is very frustrating and discouraging, I cleaned my incision 3-4 x a day with peroxide and a touch of neosporin at night. You will heal. it just take some of us more time than others ( I don't know why). Keep up the good work hubby! Check for signs of infection. I hated being so weak after the preg and the surgery, then the never ending incission. I felt depressed.Don't be afrade to ask for help around the house and with the baby, even if you are feeling "okay".This will help you heal faster. Hang in there.You will feel so much better soon, and you will start to really enjoy that baby of yours. Good luck. ↑
Sarah i had the same thing with my 1 and it ened having infection and they had to cut out a big chunk it healed and i had 2 more c-sections after that and going to have one in feb ↑
This is awful that so many of us are going through this or have gone through it! I have one more Dr. visit left (at least I hope this is the last one) next week. This has been a painful experience that I would not wish upon anyone. My incision is now granulated tissue so a couple more weeks and it should be competely gone. I asked the doctor why this has happened to me twice now and he said I am just not a good healer. Well the home health nurses said the hole in my stomache was healinf amazingly fast. I think there is a natural bacteria or something that we must carry that increases are chance for infection following an abdominal surgery, or knows this is just my opinion. Best of wishes to everyone with your recoveries. ↑
You know what makes me mad? i am mad that this is not discussed anywhere. They say you can get an infection, but some of us have had no infection and and went through this lengthly oozing process. Doctors fail to recognize that this is a problem for us and it is not only alarming, but affects how you feel direclty after you have the section and how you care for your baby.
I wish ther were more discussions on this so women would not feel so isolated when it happens.
Best wishes and happpy healing to all. ↑
I too had this happen to me. 2 1-inch sections popped open a day after having my staples removed. It scared me half to death as I thought my insides were coming out!! It was just fluid and no blood. I had a nurse come to the house everyday for 4 weeks, and she packed the opening with sterile gauze to let it heal from the inside outwards. It wasn't a fun experience. But, on the good side, my OB said that it was a good thing that it did happen, or I would have been placed in hospital with a drainage tube. Nature took care of it for me. I healed up fast with no other side effects. I had been on pennicilin for infection before I was released from hospital but it wasn't enough I guess. ↑
I am totally sympathetic as I had an emergency c section 10 days ago. Several nights ago I woke up with blood pouring out of my incision. Completely panicked at 3 am in the morning I went to the ER, where an ER Dr. and my OB examined me and I was told that the wound opening was fine, no sign of infection but that I had hematoma at the incision site that would likely clear up on its own. I was sent home with antibiotics to ward off any potential infection. Days later I am still bleeding quite heavily from the incision site with no change in the hard painful hematoma in my stomach. I hope the fact that your not alone helps you cope better. Good Luck! ↑
I am so excited, I am finally done with this whole mess. My last doctors appointment was today. The incision now looks like if you were to fall and scrape your knee. It is still a little sensitive but nothing like the it was. I wish you all the best!!!!!! ↑
I feel your pain as if it was mine again. I went through the same thing. I had my 4th section and had tubes tied. the staples were removed on day 5, went home and at about 11:30 i got out of bed and felt warm fluid and blood gushing out of my incision. I wert to the er and they put some packing in and gave me some oral abx. and sent home. Had a fever that night and was sent back to the er where I met the ob residents. They cleaned and rinsed the incisionl and then packed it with gauze. I also had the added problem of being allergic to the sticky stuff they put on you for bandages to stick. My incision was surrounded by red,swollen and itchy skin around the wound. Homecare came and changed dressings twice a day. the bandages would leak alot in bed and if i was out on an errand. Fortunately my incision did close up again. so it took about 6 weeks. Now, i have an added problem that the dressing changes caused. I had a pocket or tissue on my right side. and when the gauze was pushedinto that space it caught on to the clips they used to tie my tubes. My uterus is now pulled to the right side and is attached to my abdominal wall. I have horrible pain by the end of the day,. It radiatesto the back and its that pain you have with crampy periods. But other than that, I have no problems with the actual incision since its healed. good luck and remember that it will get better. My baby just turned 9 mos. on the 25 of june. Try and center on your baby and family and take all the help you can get. this is the time for you to take care of yourself by resting and being with your baby. Congratulations, it will heal and you will still have your beautiful baby. Oh, i read some stats reading that the opening of the incision is about 35%. ↑
