Hi everyone,
I have been seeing the nurse at my GP surgery for a few weeks to have my fungating wounds on my breast dressed. It started with honey patches, then moved to honey on gauze, then a honey wound care ointment all these helped mask the smell and it was great. Now the hospital have told me to swap to a carbon type dressing to help with the odour as I was getting more wounds which were starting to leak and smell. I find these make the smell seem worse as I'm not allowed to use adhesive dressings over the top of it because my breast is swollen, the skin is pelling off. They seem to think the adhesive dressings is making it worse. I have been given pads which just sit in my bra which I seem to leak through within an hour, through the bra and top. So when I go out I have to make sure I keep my coat on as im not sure what state my top will be in if I take it off. The smell is there contantly now, even in the shower it never goes away.
I know my oncologist said the chemo should help it heal a bit and then I face surgery to have a mastectomy but what do I do in the mean time?
Has anyone been in the same situation and how did you manage the leakage/smell problem?
