My C-section went wrong..advice needed please

thatgirlsam

lynn44 wrote: »

Thanks for your reply.
It was 100% confirmed by Anaesthetist that stitches would stay in for 10 days because of my medical condition.
This is what my sister was concerned about me being discharged because of the sheer volume of fluid I was losing while still in hospital...
They only put extra pressure pad/plaster on after second op..
Yes on the 3 times I was admitted to hospital I was swabbed everytime.

The registar had said it could be down to being given to many anti biotics, I did leave hospital with a WHOLE BAG full....

I had the stitches with the beads at each end...
Now I look like I have been half eaten by a great white :eek:

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-is it healing properly now?
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i had no feeling at all on my scar for about 2 years and it has healed quite well considering
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what an awful experience for you - i really hope you can move on from it , but definatley get in touch with PALS as this should not be happening ...
-best of luck to you x

lynn44

Thanks sam

Yes healing ok now, I do have panic days where I think its gonna burst open, It seems once in bed I have trouble still moving and getting up very sore inside the stomach ??
My poor partner still doing the night feeds and getting our 5 yr old to school, plus walking our 2 dogs bless him he has done soooo well, and we are very lucky to be blessed again with a wonderful well contented little boy...

This was my 6th and last baby I am glad I am older mum and didnt panic as much as my daughter would of done ( If you see what I mean, I dont want this to happen to any new mum this is why I will lodge a complaint because things were clearly wrong and shouldnt of happened....
I am glad I got my anta natal notes still as it clearly states I was complaining of leaky wound for 3 days even on day of discharge, It states a Dr was requested but was called away to A & E......

thatgirlsam

lynn44 wrote: »

Thanks sam

Yes healing ok now, I do have panic days where I think its gonna burst open, It seems once in bed I have trouble still moving and getting up very sore inside the stomach ??
My poor partner still doing the night feeds and getting our 5 yr old to school, plus walking our 2 dogs bless him he has done soooo well, and we are very lucky to be blessed again with a wonderful well contented little boy...

This was my 6th and last baby I am glad I am older mum and didnt panic as much as my daughter would of done ( If you see what I mean, I dont want this to happen to any new mum this is why I will lodge a complaint because things were clearly wrong and shouldnt of happened....
I am glad I got my anta natal notes still as it clearly states I was complaining of leaky wound for 3 days even on day of discharge, It states a Dr was requested but was called away to A & E......

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i am glad you have a supportive partner there - when i came out of hospital after 3 weeks - my scar had not healed , it was being packed every day by the district nurse - my partner offered to HELP me change the bedding . he is my ex now -

-out of interest how many sections have you had and were you warned that scar tissue does become much weaker the more sections you have ?

lynn44

Hi sam
yes I am very lucky to have great partner I know my x would of not been so supportive.
This was my first section all other babies normal no problem deliveries.

Funny thing is all through my pregnancy I had "gut feeling " something was going to go wrong, and I had pleaded for c section, but was told no only on medical grounds would one be performed,
So I was so pleased when he stayed breecehed...dispute Drs trying to convince me still to go ahead with normal birth, So glad I opted for c section, because his shoulder was so stuck emergency c section would of been performed anyway.

clairec79

I'm surprised it would have been the anthesthist saying the sutures need to stay in for 10 days rather than 5-7 (as has already been stated otherwise you run the risk of them becoming embedded), it would have been the obstetrician deciding that and it should have been written if there was a change to normal - otherwise midwife would do what she did - follow national protocol.

For your intestines to come out though that sounds like the underlying problem was more than the skin sutures being removed as the muscle layer can't have started to heal (be that incorrectly sutured or the internal stitch snapped)

lynn44

clairec79 wrote: »

I'm surprised it would have been the anthesthist saying the sutures need to stay in for 10 days rather than 5-7 (as has already been stated otherwise you run the risk of them becoming embedded), it would have been the obstetrician deciding that and it should have been written if there was a change to normal - otherwise midwife would do what she did - follow national protocol.

For your intestines to come out though that sounds like the underlying problem was more than the skin sutures being removed as the muscle layer can't have started to heal (be that incorrectly sutured or the internal stitch snapped)

Thanks for your reply

On being met at the hospital, the midwife told me/us to remind surgeon and anaesthetist of my bad cough etc etc.

We remember quite clearly the Anaesthetist telling the surgeon of my medical condition and stitches would be left in for 10 days.

The surgeon replied to us to come back into hospital in 10 days to have them removed...

I dont want to sound rude... but you sound just like my mid wife did... but if we dont remove them then skin will grow over them....

The 19 stitches I have had removed now were left in for 10 days and other half taken out 11 days...

yes I have been told lucky mid wife had taken them out earlier because it showed us big problems ahead of the normal 10 days recommended...

I am still very angry no mid wife nurse matron or Doctor listened to me in hospital before my discharge and BIG PUDDLES OF FLUID all over my floor were there for a reason and it was IGNORED!!! :mad:

thatgirlsam

so you had them removed by the community midwife at home ~?
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-it sounds like miscommunication between the community and the hospital midwives - did the consulant not want you to have an outpatients appointment to have them removed , did you ever get an appointment~?-

-i am shocked that you were discharged with a wound like that ,on what day post natal were you discharged?-

i work in a maternity unit and any problems with wounds are taken VERY seriously -
-c-sections are high risk and there are good reasons why they should not be performed unless there are medical reasons -

lynn44

thatgirlsam wrote: »

so you had them removed by the community midwife at home ~?
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-it sounds like miscommunication between the community and the hospital midwives - did the consulant not want you to have an outpatients appointment to have them removed , did you ever get an appointment~?-

-i am shocked that you were discharged with a wound like that ,on what day post natal were you discharged?-

i work in a maternity unit and any problems with wounds are taken VERY seriously -
-c-sections are high risk and there are good reasons why they should not be performed unless there are medical reasons -

Yes 1st stitches were removed at home.. under protest...
2nd lot I was still in hospital so removed there
We were told by the surgeon to come back into hosiptal to have them removed.. but this was clearly not written on my notes.

I was discharged on day 5 again under protest..
This is why I find it so hard to believe the heartless matron that said I had to leave and go home
The nurses had seen with there own eyes the fluid leaking and sodding wet sanerity towels....

clairec79

I'm sorry if I offended you with my answer

You shouldn't have been discharged from the hospital if you were leaking that much (and it does sound like that was a sign that underneath things weren't healing - when you get your hospital notes look to see who signed to say you were fit for discharge (it should have been a registrar or consultant from the sound of things - midwives and SHO should only do the straightforward ones - which if you are oozing everywhere you weren't).

Also it would be written on the operation sheet (or should have been) to say that you were to have them removed on day 10 (and in hospital) - if this is there and hadn't been passed on you have a stronger case against the trust for mismanagement.

I would write a complaint (I'd go straight to head of maternity or obstetrics) - there SHOULD be an investigation going on into it anyway, it's an automatic trigger for an investigation if someone has to be readmitted into theatre, but they wouldn't automatically tell you the results unless you ask/complain/sue

elastigirl

I wish i had done something about my case at the time. Very long story but a bit Similar. Basicly had an emergency c-section due to baby being very destressed. But the reason the baby was destressed was because the docs over dosed me on Anesthetic. Because of this i don't remember a lot of it as it knocked me unconscious but hubby told me what happened. I had 3 failed epidurals ( i was told i had to have one as i had to have a drip in also) and was confined to the bed for 12 hours (not hard as knocked out for most of it, kept drifting in and out). The first epidural seemed to work at first but they kept topping me up as they thought it had failed. The only thing i really rember is the team rushing me for the op and them stopping as a nurse shouted for god sake them them say goodbye to each other, So i think we both came pretty close but thankfully it was all ok. I then had to have a GA, I didn't regain conscious until 6 hours after i had my baby.

I had the same stitch as you lyn with the balls, midwife removed them a few days later and wound opened up was told it would be ok and they bandaged it up as best they could. However it was too late and was already infected and that was just holding all the infection in. Lots of pills and steroid cream i slowly got better. But because i wasn't re-stitched and let to naturally dry up and close my tummy is in a right state.

I looked at it all at the time as just something i had to go through to get my lovely ds, the staff really did save his and my life but thinking about it it was them who put us in that situation in the first place and i really wished i had made a formal complained.