At the beginning of August I had emergency surgery to drain a massive abscess in my left side, just by my hip. It was about 8cm across and it was surrounded by a large patch of cellulitis (about 15 cm by 20 cm). The open wound was about ten cm deep and eight cm long and was packed and dressed every day until the 17th of September when it finally closed and I was discharged.
The nurses were fantastic and it has healed beautifully but they didn't have much advice to give me about the long term. The area with cellulitis is still discoloured (darker, slightly puffy) and is sometimes tender. I have had pulling, burning and aching sensations in the scar and its surrounding area and the occasional stabbing pains and twinges which have stopped me in my tracks. Recovery was complicated a little by a large swollen bruise close to the wound, where I fainted and hit a door handle hard (hard enough that I still have the mark of a perfect circle on my back).
After 6 weeks of slow recovery (and a week of illness before that) and then another month of less activity, I have had more than enough of resting and being treated like an invalid by everyone. I am trying to get back to normal, but I don't want to do myself any serious damage. Can anyone give me some idea about recovery times, I'm assuming months but desperately hoping not lots of months.
We are moving house soon and I have been shifting boxes/cleaning recently, there has been some aching in my hip area and some slight redness in my scar. I have been having lots of backaches but I assumed that's down to weeks of bed rest and then limited activity. DH is being a worrier and thinks I will reopen my scar, I presume by this point that is fairly unlikely.
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Recovery after large abscess (surgery) and cellulitis, how long?
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TheWanderingUterus · 02/11/2016 19:04
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