Abcess on Incision

I went to the new doctor yesterday.

He was great. Attentive to the whole picture. He asked about my hysterectomy and seemed dubious about it for fibroids and asked how big and I said "one pound--" and I didn't even get to finish because he nodded and said "too big", so he didn't think it was the wrong decision.

We didn't talk about my cyclical bleeding. Mostly the appointment was about my recent bronchitis and asthma/allergies.

He put me on a new treatment - singulair. I'll give it a try.

Then he looked at my tummy and the little infected site. It's not gotten better over the past few days, so I'm glad I mentioned it. I was also running a low grade fever of 99.2 - so this is not a tiny skin infection. He probed it a bit and agreed that it's either a very ingrown hair or a stitch being rejected by my body. Either way, he told me to keep up with the neosporin, to heat compresses four times a day and he put me on seven days of keflex.

The keflex is trashing my bowels, I've had diarrhea since early this morning. I'll start up on the probiotics next week.

Posted by Elizabeth M. on March 9, 2005 7:57 PM