I’m post breast conserving surgery, had re excision about 7 weeks ago, developed a stitch sinus 10 days ago,which opened up a bit more so went to seeBC nurses at the hospital,they said no infection and very superficial, put iodine dressing on, unfortunately two hrs later at radiotherapy planning they took it off and as a new dressing wasn’t available then put that one back on. I tried the next day to get a replacement, ended up with a the district nurse putting a plain dressing on then the next they took it off again and put another iodine one on. By this point it looked virtually healed, I almost said it looks ok now and was a bit worried about the various dressings going on and coming off. Unfortunately since that last dressing was put on it has deteriorated , it hasn’t looked infected previously,but yesterday for the first time it was very sore again and open again and drained some pus and some blood, this was completely different to the slightly blood stained clear fluid coming out in very small amonts previously. I already have another appointment to have this checked tomorrow, it was booked when it was seen last week. My radiotherapy is due to start on Friday, I have no idea if this can go ahead now? Plus am I going to need antibiotics for this now? I know there is a reluctance t9 give antibiotics unless really needed, does this now qualify as needing them? What other dressing can be used to help this now? It’s about a 3/4 cm open along the scar line .
Is it ok to wait till tomorrow, I don’t have any systemic symptoms of sepsis, or should I try and get it seen somewhere, so hard to know what to do. Is there any hence it could heal and radiotherapy commence on Friday?
