Seroma

Hi Psysically challenged 

I’m Daisy53 and I am one of the Community Champions on this forum.  I had a similar experience as you last year after breast cancer surgery. I had to have the Seroma drained a couple of times but it eventually went away after a week or so.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Thank you for your reassurance.

Luckily my seroma didn’t get infected and I didn’t have it aspirated. It did take a good few of months to be re absorbed but it did go down xx

I'm sorry to heat that it's not pleasant. 

I was operated on in 2021 and in 2022 I developed Seroma. It was drained twice and it kept coming back. I was given three options one was to leave, golf ball trying to escape from my breast, two put a drainage tube in and drain it or 3 three have anti biotics, which I thought were oral. I went for the antibiotics. This entailed having one course injected into my breast after having some of the fluid removed. 

I'm nit sure of the name but it was to swell in the cavity left behind by the removal of the cancer. Three days later I started to a swelling coming out of my breast, as it was a bank Holiday on the Monday I phoned my consultant asking if I could come in the following day. No response, my GP didn't want to know either, I was in agony and my breast was very hot to the touch and looked like a Robins chest. The only way I could cope with the pain was to use the ice packs that are used on knees, I would take it straight out of the freezer put it on my breast using post operatives bras to keep it place, believe it or not it was heaven. When I went to see the consultant two weeks after the initial injection I felt that it was like a rugby ball. It ended up having to be lanced, no local pain killer, my husband is lucky not to have walked out with broken fingers.

Now in 2024 I still have Seroma and after my last mammogram it has started to reduce in size however I do have a nasty brown hard scar where the problem was. Some people are lucky and some are not. If I was to start this process again I would go for drainage tubes put in and know that it might come back.

I wish you all the best in what ever you choose to do

I had a mastectomy on 21st November last year and I still have a massive seroma, above my former breast, along the scar and under my armpit towards the back.

I had it drained weekly since surgery, the nurse took 1 litre in the first month then it went down to 300 ml last week.

I`m trying to last longer but I might have to call the breast nurses and go again in a few days, the pressure is quite bad :(