toxic shock syndrome

hi girls, well i was reading through my emails and every so often i get a newsletter from dr olebrandt from eylzea. this time it contained a few things regarding breast aug complications, and toxic shock syndrome was one of them, ive never been told this before at any of my consultations, not even the one i had with dr olebrandt about two years ago. has anyone else said that TSS
was a risk (a very rare one) and if so, does it mean it can happen at any time, or mainly in the healing stages early on?? grrrr,im stressing now as ive only ever associated tss syndrome with tampons xx

oooo not not heard of that with ba but yea with tampons is it when old blood staying in your system or something????

never heard of that

I've never heard of that either. Maybe its a more recent complication and they are trying to make people more aware of it. That's another thing to worry about now!

I would say it would be a complication of a recent ba and not a concern of op that occured some time ago.
If you use the tampon analogy, you are putting in a tampon and each time risk germs getting into your hoo-ha. Hence clean hands etc. And it is rare.
The tss is caused by a bacteria realeasing a strong toxin which can be fatal, so like all bacterial infections that are poss after an op, there is a risk.
In a ba, or any other op which obviously involves contact between the outside word and our blood stream, there is again a small risk. Though I would have thought in todays op rooms, a lesser one than inserting a tampon at home, so very rare indeed.

So after the initial healing has been completed, and as long as the skin barrier of the insicsion is healed, the risk would be minimal. And even immed post op the risk will be tiny due to the low infection rate and sanitation processes that are common in todays hospitals.

oh phew!!! thanks kayla, i was really worrying and adding that to my list of post op complication "stresses and worrys" . its odd tho its not mentioned at the majority of consults, ill defintly bring it up in the future if i need to see my surgeon again for whatever reason xx

Starz-10 wrote:I've never heard of that either. Maybe its a more recent complication and they are trying to make people more aware of it. That's another thing to worry about now!

sorry, i didnt mean to make you worry, i was just wondering if anybody else had heard of it, and why it wasnt mentioned at any of my consultations x

Oooooh now you got me thinking......back in may i went to mallorca (5 months post ba) & was on my period at the time. I was so so ill whilst there & think it was tss. I looked up the symptoms on nhs direct & i had 6 out of a posssible 8. Obv at the time i whipped out my tampon asap & managed to do this before passing out on DH i had all the signs..sickness, diarreah, temp, dizzyness, passingout etc etc.........would be interested if anyone has read into this more????

It wasn't a risk mentioned to me so??

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never heard of that to hun thought it was only caused by keeping tampax in to long??
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I have been reading up a lot on complications and have read that this is possible. I am not sure whether it is a big concern. A lot of my research has been regarding PIPS so i dont know whether it might be just a complication from them.

If you are worried i would ask your surgeon, just for piece of mind. xx

oh stephy that sounds scary,luckily your ok now tho hun...... xx

vix, when you read up about it, did it say it can happen straight after surgery, rather than when your all healed etc? i dont wanna be worrying 6 months post op about getting tss somewhere down the line ,i wish i never read the newsletter now, lol xx

Yeah I read about the possibility of Toxic Shock Syndrome somewhere in all the papers that Transform or Mya gave me in the last couple of weeks, I can't find it right now but I'll let you know if I do x

thanks mrsm , much appreciated xxx

So it might have been from my tampon then not surgery as it was 5 months later??

natalia - I only had my tampon in 2 hours.......x