Hematoma after Appendectomy

[JT_Eng]

Hello all,

Obviously I'm new to this forum, but not new to internet forums (I'm a moderator on an automotive forum).

Anyways, I had an appendectomy two weeks ago, and I just had my stitch removed three days ago. I've been pain free basically since a week after the surgery...only slight pain when I sneeze, or use my core in the wrong way. My incision site looks like a very minor scrape, and my stomach looks perfectly normal.

However, I have a hard lump under my incision site that I thought was a hernia from some sneezing and spasms a few nights after the surgery. My surgeon who took the stitch out says it's probably a hematoma (she poked around and revealed that it's not just one small ball-like lump under the incision, but it's bigger and kind of all over the surgery site in a 2.5" radius or so...but appears as a hard ball like shape in localized reasons where I poke around).

She explained that it should absorb back into my body within the next month.

My question is...how can I tell if I'm doing better or worse? It definitely has NOT shrunk in size, but I can't really say if it has become larger. It pushes out on my incision a bit, and I can see it sticking out a bit over half my incision. What kind of symptoms should alarm me? At what point should I be notifying my surgeon that it isn't receding normally? Hopefully it will become noticeably smaller within the next week or so, and I won't have these questions.

Anyways, thanks in advance for any comments, questions, suggestions.

-J.T.

[JT_Eng]

Well, I can happily announce that my Hematoma has GREATLY reduced in size

I walked 18 holes today with my bag on my back. My "appendix" kinda stung when I was walking for like 3 holes on the back nine, but it went away. However, the 1 month layoff from golf proved to be disastrous lol. On a course where I almost always shoot in the mid 70s, I shot a lovely 91 today haha. Oh well, just gotta get back into the "swing" of things.

[Kenneth ©]

The body is a wonderful machine

[spoofBug73]

Mine looks a bit worst too lol. Mainly cos the black came out like a wanna be matt black so looks pretty crap. Will do a before/after when I repaint it the "before" will be what it is now

[ingetly09]

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