Sorry for the long post.
I am in my home country and had to go to the emergency room of our local hospital (i had a red swollen patch on the top part of my breast). After a look from the duty doctor she said that she needs to make an incision and drain the pus out.
She did it without any type of pain relief or anaesthetic. The pain was horrendous and the whole process felt disorganized. She was a junior doctor and a senior surgeon walked in and asked her why the hell she started the incision without a nurse to help her. (She said she asked but they said they were busy). He went outside and started shouting at a couple of nurses who came in and started helping. The surgeon kept barking orders at the junior doctor. Apparently, she wasn't doing it correctly and wasn't draining the pus out properly. Meanwhile, i was wishing i could pass out.
Eventually, the ordeal was over and i was told that the wound needs to be kept open so it will keep draining (?).
Did anyone else had an incision to treat an abscess? Did they keep it open? For how long? Did they give you any kind of pain relief during the incision?
I am also EBF and it's so hard at the moment. I am feeding DS from my other breast but apparently i need to remove milk from the breast that has the incision but not by feeding baby. Because of the dressings I can't use a pump. I hand expressed a bit but the movement caused the wound to start bleeding and now my dressing is soaked. Does anyone has experience with this? How much milk i need to empty?
I am close to tears because i fear this might be the end of my breastfeeding journey and baby is only 2.5 months. I wanted to at least reach the 6 month milestone.
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Stardust91 · 06/01/2019 17:12
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