Has anyone deveoped Lymphocele

My father had a lymph node infection following his Da Vinci. He had an area that was enlarged and was oozing after his surgery for quite awhile, but a course of antibiotics cleared it up. Hope you are feeling better soon!

I hate to be the bear of bad news, but I am there right now. I was urinating more frequently and even had some bladder infection symptoms. To make a long story short, it became infected and after a local urgent care took a CT Scan and found this, we hurried off to San Francisco to my own docs.

They hopitalized me for three days.. During that time Interventional Radiology put a drain tube in. I was sent home on Monday of this week. I have a follow up appt to take scans to see the progress. No one has given me an estimated length of time for this Jackson Pratt suction drain they have in it.

I had to be cathed again, ugh!, but it was removed before I came home. The JP drain is just an inconvenience, A tube with a collection unit hanging from you. Do not worry about it if you have to have one. More messing around than anything.

One of my docs described it as "bump" in the road to recovery.

My doc said it is not uncommon and that it usually shows up with in 30 days. Mine did not show up for 90 days.

Feel free to ask any more questions about it if you want.

What happened to me was the following:

I begin to have more urgency and frequency when urinating.

Then I felt tired. In fact, I thought I was getting the flu.

I had a low temperature. Then burning started when I urinated.

I decided this was the same symptoms I was treated for about a month after surgery. I was told then it appeared to be a bladder infection but didn't show up as very much of one in tests.

I went to my own primary care doc who gave me Levaquin. He too thought it was a bladder infection but it didn't show on the urine dip stick test.

The next day I was worse, not better. Temp went to 103.

The next morning I felt still like I had the flu so since it was Saturday, we called the doc on call. He felt it sounded more like Kidneys so asked us to go to urgent care. The doc there tested for bladder and kidney and it was neither. But a blood test showed infection. So they did a CT Scan and found the fluid.

The reason I had to be re cathed was the fluid sack was pushing on the bladder wall. They wanted the bladder completely collasped when they stuck the needle in to put the drain line in.

I didn't want that again, but my doc said they had switched brands of cathethers since I had it three months ago and these are better. I have to admit, it wasn't even hardly noticeable. Needless to say, I still didn't beg to keep it in when they wanted to remove it!!!!!

Thankfully, I work in a huge medical facility and even though UCSF is not part of our system, the docs refer there quite a lot. Also to the Stanford Med Clinics. So it is no problem to be a patient (or employee for that matter) and have an outside doc.

I am glad my cancer doc is only about an hour and 45 minutes away. The biggest problem is just the hassle of a big city. But that is OK as all but one time we have used the commuter train, subways, and buses so San Francisco's hills, teeny streets, and parking aren't a problem. And we can avoid the $24.00 a day parking garage fee at the hospital.

I go back on Monday for a recheck. If I remember I will ask my docs how often this happens and how likely it is it will just absorb and go away.

Don't stress over this. As I said before, it really isn't a big obstacle. More of a hassle thing than anything else.

Jerry..

 Hi , I am relatively new to the forum so I apologize if my info doesnt come up at the end of the reply. I had my radical prostatectomy (nerve sparing and nerve graft) done Jan 22 in Toronto. I was progressing quite well, until Feb 16, I went to my family doctor complaining of frequent urination day and night, and a pungent odor that developed in my urine. Tests both blood and urine did not show anything. Sat Feb 21 evening, I started having a fever. By Sunday early it was 104.5. Went to triage at local hospital. They said possible bladder infection.. one bag of IV antibotic, 2 Tylenol and sent me home with a prescrition for Avelox. Monday and Tuesday fever would peak several times at 104.5, never lower than 101F. Ambulanced to emergency as I was incapable of lifting myself out of bed and had become delirious. Long story short .. 13 days in hospital with an infected pelvic/abdominal lymphocele. Bacteriodes Fragilis. I was in sepsis, my kidneys were shutting down. Was put on Tazocin and Flagyl intravenously, once they obtained the culture. It was a near death experience. I was sent home with an IV pump and took the Tazocin for 11 days after discharge. The Flagyl I am taking orally since Mar 7 and will be on it til April 28. Needless to say it took a lot out of me, but I am getting stronger each day. Lot of physical and mental strain. The Flagyl is potent .. 500 mg - 3 times a day. But it is helping.

God bless and all the best .. Henry

Hi, I had my prostate out about 10 years ago and developed a lymphocele about two years ago and it blocked my water. I was in agony for two weeks with spasms every two to three minutes. My urologist went up through the penis and bladder inserted a catheter and drained the fluid. Just within the last couple of months my water started to slow down again and I went in for another procedure. This time under a ct scan a radiologist put a needle through the cheek of my backside and drained of 50-60% of the fluid. It helped a great deal but I'll probably have to go back again in some months time. I don't intend to wait until my water stops completely again as it is very painful and dangerous. I hope they come up with a permanent solution!