Infection

• by mytrose43
• 2009-06-02 12:06:11
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Hi Everyone

I have a question,I have had my pacemaker since 2005 . i have had a infection in my left breast since 2006 it has been needle aspirated sevral times over the years i have had biopsys numerous times and on antibiotics several times until recently the infection got so bad i ended up in the emergency room at which time thy called in a surgeon and within a couple of hours i was in the operating room having this very large abcess drained spent 3 days in th hosp on IV antibiotics,hopring this would be th end of it,Well guess what it was not after the wound healed from the inside out once again i have a infction back ,So back to the Dr i go this time he desides he can do the surgery again but in his office(BIG MISTAKE) he says its gonna be a bigger surgry than the first one (what luck) anyway i take coumadin which i stopped for 1 day and go into have the surgery which took over a hour he said he removed the intire abcess capsule and any thing that looked infected this time he packed it with silver nitrate and sends me home .1 hour later i am bleeding severly had to call the ambulance and almost bled to death before they could get me back into surgery to stop the bleeding needless to say i was in icu for 3 days now after all this you would think this infection would be gone i had nurse come out everyday for about 5 weeks to pack the wound and bandage it, it finally healed in about 7 weeks and low and behold the INFECTION is back again,
The Dr no idea what is causing these infections i asked him if it could have anything to do with my Pacmaker and all i get is i have no idea now i am looking at more surgery more antibiotics and what ever else can happen.. so i need any help possible PLease could it be from the pacemaker??????
Thanks Valerie