I came through the surgery just fine!

At my hospital i would call urgent care. Seems odd they cannot figure it out. Please get a 2nd opinion as this does not feel right. Please keep us posted.

Does anyone know about seromas after lymph node biopsy(was negative) I has been aspirated 7 times. Wear compression and when I take off to shower after 3 days of compression the seroma comes back filling up. I have the compression on but with the fluid in there sides won't stick down to heal. I am going to have another aspiration rather than a drain. Does anyone know if it eventually stops oozing and just goes flat and away?

Is there anyone in support grous that had a seroma and can discuss their experience with it? How long and what did you do to get rid of. I have had for over a month and keep aspirating it. 7 times. It is healing and less is coming out every time. On ultrasound you can see healing and 9 Cc came out a week ago. It started with 62 Cc. Anyway I just don't want it to harden and stay. After I took off compression to shower it has started filling up again. What have others done?

I hope you found some resolution! I’m unsure how surgeons decide to use post surgery drains. I didn’t have drains. The seroma formed from the node removal was worse than radiation. Draining it when the fluid became infected was traumatic. I asked my PCM for a chest CT months later after a lot of discomfort at a secondary tumor site near the chest wall. Viola! A seroma at that site also. I changed surgeons to someone whose wife is a 20yr breast cancer survivor and feel more comfortable with him on my team. The seromas may not completely resolve and they are uncomfortable almost 2yrs out, but not another infection!

I had continuous seromas after my cancer bc surgery and removal of lymph nodes 2. My doc wanted to do a drain. I had ultrasound and aspirations 8 times in close succession til the seroma was gone. No drain for me. The aspirations worked. Over!

I had Sonoma after mastectomy and lymph node removal. Surgeon gave me drain after surgery. The drain was removed after over a week. The Senoma site was quite big. Instead of aspirating it, Surgeon told me to let the body naturally absorb it over the time. I wasn’t comfortable to sleep on that side. But after a year, my MRI showed that the Senoma is gone.

Mine started out being the size of a base ball. I could not wait a year for body to absorb. I kept going back to have it aspirated. It took 8 times and about 3 weeks. I used compression garment in between aspirations.