Belly button incision won't heal up - anyone had the same?

[FairFacedFairy]

I had my 3rd lap on 19th June this year. I have had the worse time healing this time round. I had a reaction to the glue and all around my inicisions were covered in blisters. Next to my belly button incision was a particulary bad one and basically it looks like it has stopped the incision healing as 3 months on it's still open. It's also been infected and I am currently on my 4th lot of antiobiotics! ( it's been swabbed to find out exactly what it is) The district nurse seems to think there is something deep that is stopping it from healing i.e a foreign body like some glue or a stitch. My doctor thinks it could be a collection of fluid or abit of awkward scar tissue. Basically noone will agree and I have to wait until 25th Sep for an ultrasound!

Has anyone had a similiar issue??

I am completely fed up. It's sore and painful and I really don't want to take anymore antibiotics. It's obviously resistant to them

[AllWeNeedIsluv]

My belly button was the worst to heal I had infection too no blisters though the infection lasted a while though antibiotics then another set my infection went but belly button didn't heal for a while we all have different healing times though. What I did find is once I started taking the serrapetase (enzyme that eats away at scar tissue mucous etc helps with inflammation) my belly button healed rapidly and the stitches dropped out too maybe something to Google and maybe consider they advice to take it after surgery due to it helping stop scar tissue forming. Hope you get some relief soon hun.

💗😘

[maxine128]

mine hasn’t healed well either whereas the wounds on the side of my abdomen healed within a month or less, in august it will have been 1 year since i have had the surgey and the glue is still stuck inside my belly button. it looks like it did when i got the surgery, and i feel like the shape they tried affixing it to has deformed and it’s not holding. i also still have slight plain when i attempt to clean the glue out or spread it to look inside. i’m also kinda bummed my belly button looks different than it used to :(( i hate these glue stiches!

[Unhappyfeet]

Mine is doing the exact same thing. I know that I react to all adhesives with an itchy rash. If the adhesive stays on me, the skin will actually blister and come off. I figured they put surgical adhesive on my incision and on the incision in my belly button even after I told them I have an allergic-like reaction to adhesive. I went back to the surgeon and showed her the rash, redness, and moisture coming from my belly button and the other incisions that were not healing. I explained that they itch like crazy and felt like an allergic reaction. It didn't take me long to figure out what was going on so I had started taking benadryl every day. If I stopped, even for one day, the rash, redness, seeping clear fluid, and itchness came right back. She cleaned it, cauterized the seeping areas, and then dug in there with hemastats to get a better look. She found a blueberry-sized ball of glue. She told me to keep it open, dry, and clean. It did a bit better so I thought maybe that was all of it. It returns right away, but not as intensely as before when the ball of glue was present. There must be more in there. I have to get her to look again or open it. The only thing that helps is benadryl. Let me know if you have figured out anything else, please.

[Hidden]

Hi, i had glue and was told by the nurse that it would flake off naturally. I then went to see my consultant for a follow up and I was given the wrong advice. I should have had the glue removed a week after my op as the belly button would become infected. This is due to dead skin cells and bacteria getting trapped underneath hence why you should let it air and heal naturally. Anyway he removed the glue in the nik of time as my belly button was sore, red and inflamed. But it had now gone down so no need to take antibiotics.

[FairFacedFairy]

Hello, so my original post was now 2 years ago ( and no further surgery so far!). In the end it was a piece of glue that was stopping the wound from closing up! I ended up taking selenium supplements and also starting exercising again. I think the movement and me trying to heal up the wound with the tablets helped it head in the right direction. The scar isn't great but I'm just glad I managed to work out what it was!