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masitis drained using local aneasphetic
Hi, lila is 16 weeks, i had to go to hospital to get my bood drained yesterday after it hadnt cleared up after course of anti biotics. When my dr sent me she said it would be done under a GA! Which had me in a major panik! Luckily i ended up only with a local aneasephtic... I have got to go back and have it again on monday. I am just wondering if anyone has any experience of this? My boobs is alot redder now than it was originaly and is still hard, is this normal? I am so worried they are going to say i need it done under GA! This just would be a COMPLETE nightmare, lila doesnt take a bottle, we have tried every bottle going, so me leaving her really isnt an option. How many times should i expect to need to have it drained? It is such bad timing, timing, the hospital is 40 Mins away, the weather is bad and expectd to get worse and i could do withoug waiting around for hours waiting to be seen, with a 16 week old, in the week before xmas! Any experiences! Im so stressed about it x
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i had an abcess drained which had formed after unsuccessful treatment of mastitus - is this what you mean?
I made a post about it......
I was in agony with mine and had it drained about 5 times in all, 4 times with Local, and once with nothing!!! (this was because I had too long between drainings and it burst out of the previous needle passage and was inflamed. Apparently local doesn't work on inflamed skin!) I won't lie, not having the local was the worst pain I have ever experienced......
Do not leave it too long between draining!
Good news is, it all did the trick and never came back
Good luck x
Fri to monday is the longest i went normally. When it burst I think it was a thurs to tues and clearly too long lol. You will know yourself because immediately after having it done it feels soooooo much better, and then gets worse as it refills with puss and you get the fever back.
Mastitus is very common sadly. i can't comment on your case but when i got it first, I think it was partly related to using nipple shields (i never managed to breast feed properly). Had antibiotics and it cleared.
The second time I got it, I left it a bit too long before getting antibiotics, ended up in A&E with the pain and fever, and they gave me the wrong ones. Obviuosly didn't clear it up and i went downhill so went to docs who gave me the SAME WRONG antibiotics. Ended up in A&E again and finally got the right meds but by then nothing ws working. I finally got refered to the breast unit after I told my doc I couldn't cope and didn't want my baby anymore........the clinic were fab, found the abcess straight away and sorted it out.
I have since discovered that my maternal Grandmother got an abcess the same, and my mum got mastitus so I think you are either prone to it or not!
grrrrr, bloody boobs!
good luck with your treatment
xx
I was heart broken about going onto formula and got myself into quite a mess over it, but in the end it worked out fine and i know it was the right thing to do. I couldn't have gone through it all again either.
one thing tho, since this happened to me, I have been ill will everything going. My nurse at the clinic told me it would happen because when you have the baby your immune system is low and then instead of getting a chance to recover after the birth, you've had to deal with the mastitus/abcess. She recommended I take enchinea and good quality vitamins every day to help. Can't say it has, but then I don't know how much worse i would have been without them. Just be warned!