Seroma? Just curious.

Ribbons
Ribbons Member Posts: 154 Member
in Uterine/Endometrial Cancer #1

I haven’t seen anything on here about a seroma happening after surgery. I think I had two right after my total hysterectomy but mine were very unusual! I will try to explain. A few days after my surgery, (robotic, so I had tiny incisions) the lowest incision on one side started leaking clear fluid, then over the next 2 days it kept on but it wasn’t a small amount, it was a lot! Like just streaming out! Soaking through folded bath towels! That side stopped and then the other side did the same thing! I told my Dr and she said well as long as it wasn’t hot or infected looking that fluid had to go somewhere, lol. The seromas I have read about need to have a drain put in but mine did it on their own I guess. It was never painful at all. I could push on that area and make more fluid come out. It finally stopped. 🤷‍♀️

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  • thatblondegirl
    thatblondegirl Member Posts: 388 Member
    #2

    I think that probably would have freaked me out! Oh My! So glad you didn’t have to have a drain!

    You’re right…I don’t think anyone else has talked about seromas here.

    I had a couple (3?) show up on my first post-chemo CT…which was the first CT I had since the one that sent me to the ONC in the first place. They were from that second surgery..the staging…and they showed on the CT report as “fluid collections, “ possible cysts or seromas. So, they had been there for 6 mths. They were fairly small and I had no idea they were there. No leaking!

    Because he wanted to be absolutely certain they weren’t something awful I had to get a PET. It showed that they were fluid, but he still insisted I get another CT 3mths later. By then, they were gone. Thank goodness! I told that long story, so others might not be alarmed. Those little seromas put us through a lot of unnecessary excess anxiety, which was the LAST thing we needed!

    😎, Alicia

  • cmb
    cmb Member Posts: 1,001 Member
    #3

    I had a fluid collection (called both a seroma or lymphocele on my CT-scans) that showed up after surgery and chemo. It was getting smaller 6 months later and gone after one year. I had no side effects from it and It didn't require any treatment.

  • Harmanygroves
    Harmanygroves Member Posts: 487 Member
    #4

    Every time I think I know a lot about this disease, another "ew" factor item comes up. Ew! so sorry you had to deal with that. And I'm so glad I didn't, knock on wood.

    xxoo

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