Loooong cesarian recovery

[mummyinmadrid]

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced a very long recovery from emergency ces wound. My wound did not heal for 2.5 months and had to go to hospital everyday so that they could change the dressing and syringe out excess fluids.The wound kept opening up in places, then just as one area would close, another would open up due to liquid presure on the inside. I have now fully recovered but was very down for the time it took to clear up as I could not do any sport, walk more than a few metres some days and getting up for DD was uncomfortable. I took 3 sets of antibiotics in total, and no one told me exactly what the problem was just that it "sometimes happens." Eventually the thing just closed on its own.
I am fit and healthy and have had no previous problems with wounds healing.
I am considering elective CES for DC2 since I have already had one, but want to prevent the same thing happening again. Anyone had the same experience?

Hi there,

I had problems with the wound but no fluid build up, that I was aware of.

However - if was bloody awful and went on forever it felt. Was in hospital a week, severla indfections (and fits and reactions to drugs as consequence).

Then problems with staples coming out (they wouldn;t.......)

After about 4 weeks it started looking less like an open wound but I was really freaked out by it. By 6 weeks I was getting used to it but then had a big pustule/cyst thing. Went to doctors and they said it was a stitch rising to the skin.....

A week later when I was looking at it in a mirror it exploded and that little area was sore for a while too.

WHole thing wa an arse... not sure about more births like this.

However. Its a major operation and i suppose there will be many who have complications, and much worse than mine! Yours sounded awful, very srry.

Perhaps your immune system was comprimised ?somehow?

think you might have been really unlucky.

my CS healed really well and is very tidy (straight not wiggly scar). as far as i know staples aren't used anymore - it's dissolvable stitches. that's what i had anyhow. they all dissolved as normal apart from the end of the thread with the knot in which the GP pulled out with tweasers at my 6 week checkup.

me and the other mum i know who had unplanned CS both recovered without any further unexpected trauma.

Mrsflux- they still use staples and I don't think it is that uncommon actually for problems with healing to occur.

I had DS last year and they used staples to close me up and it took ages to heal- months. The surgeon hadn't clipped together enough open flesh in order for it to mend together IYSWIM and it was a bloody painful nuisance which required antibiotics which then gave me nipple thrush and affected breastfeeding. So, no I wouldn't like to go through all of that again.

My best friend had a 2nd c-sect 6 weeks ago and that too was closed using staples and again she had a part that took ages to heal, requiring antibiotics.

I sympathise - my DD1 is now 14 years old but the memory of daily visits from the district nurse to pad me up with rolls of gauze to mop up my oozing wound are still very clear. Had several lots of antibiotics but didn't need hospital treatment - in fact felt better looked after by my GP, midwife and district nurse. After all hospital sent me home with temperature and cellulitis and dismissed the pain in my wound as due to the factI had a big tummy !! The good news is that I have had 2 more sections and both were much more straight forward although still took a while to get over and my woung looks better now than it did after the first - I think when had my second section it was all neatened up because wasn't good after DD1. Had trial of labour with 2nd birth as was desperate for normal delivery but in the end ended up with section to deliver my 9.5lbs son - when they weighed him was quite relieved hadn't managed normal delivery ! In a few months time your experience will seem a lot less raw and now with mine age 14, 11 and 4 seems like a long time ago but no more babies here (hopefully)

TBMOM - sorry I just assumed what was standard practice in our health authority was the same everywhere.

There's some website with pics of cs scars and the staple ones do look much more sore IMHO.
Just a thought if you are thinking of an elective cs can you ask about methods of closure and which would be best- given your awful experience?

Had stitches myself; then next day redone with staples and a drain for 10 days which I made them remove cos they wouldn't let me go home. Result was loads of fluid which kept bursting out at different points (gross!!). Breast pads were useful if I remember but it took a good 2 months to close up completely.

You have my sympathy but may be it is different for an elective where things should be much calmer and less violent than my memory of the emergency cs. Hope so!

I do know that its different every time ad every labour and birth experience is unique

Staples aren;t standard near us... I had them becuase I'm a..... er.. cuddly lady...