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This sounds like MRSA, I had a MRSA infection with a surgery and the Bee sting comparison hit it right on the nose. You should call your doctor tomorrow and do not let them tell you it is nothing. I am sick of people telling c-section moms it is nothing and then they suffer with holes in their stomachs for months. Insist that they culture it for HA-MRSA, do not let them tell you it isn't necessary. Also, Gracie, hydrogen peroxide isn't really a good idea on human tissue, it actually is caustic to healthy tissue. Keep the wound clean, dry (not too dry) and covered and get to your doc. Until you know if you are infected or not, keep in mind that you may be contagious and handwashing and preventing exposure (like skin to skin or towels and bedding) to others is important until you know what is going on. The MRSA culture will take about 3 days to come back, but they can start you on Bactrim in the mean time. Again, they will tell you it is not infected many times, but the "bee stings" sound like a good bacterial infection. Best wishes...let us know.

I had all of what you are describing after my 2nd and 3rd c-sections, including the bee sting sensation and odorless oozing. I went in right away, but everything was fine for me. Just had to wait it out and within a few weeks everything was back to normal. For me the bumpiness remained after #2, even after I healed, but with #3 it was gone. I'd go see your doctor, though, to be sure. Good luck!

DO NOT USE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE! This will just make things worse. I went through this 8 months ago, got very little support from my doc who minimized the whole situation, had to seek out wound care help from a specialist on my own, and the little section of my wound that "folded over" took 7 weeks to heal. There is a special wound dressing you can get called "Allevyn Thin." It's made by Smith and Nephew and works miracles. Let me see if I can find all of the old posts about this and bump them up so I don't have to retype.

Gracie, I could not find the old posts but saved a few emails about it. A couple of women emailed me from this forum when they experienced the same thing, so I was able to “cut and paste” some of the discussion so that I did not have to retype it. Here it goes -------- My c-section did not “approximate well” ( this is the term the doc said). This means that the center section of my incision opened when the staples were taken out. The edges closed up, but I could tell there was something wrong even before the staples came out because blood would come out when I sneezed or laughed. When the staples came out, the center of the incision looked “folded over” on itself, as you describe. This was my 2nd c-section, and my first c-section went really smooth and left me with a gorgeous scar (if there is such a thing as a gorgeous scar??). It's frustrating that I felt like I had to take charge of the situation because my OB did not think it was a very big deal. In hindsight, I wonder if she minimized it because she was worried about a lawsuit or something. But I truly had to seek out help on my own because my OB was not helpful at all. Through my friend who is a physical therapist, I was put in touch with the right experts in the area. I was given some Allevyn Thin wound dressings from a wound care nurse. Once the incision started closing, then I got some hypergranulation. You can google this term and see photos of samples. Thank goodness I figured out this term, because then I knew what to research. Hypergranulation is like excess tissue that grows during the healing process. For me, it was a moist little meaty piece of skin that bulged through my incision. Sorry if that’s TMI, but I am hoping this info will lead you in the right direction to get help. There was a time during my healing process that the goal was to keep the wound moist, and then it changed and the goal was to keep it dry. When the incision was actually still bulging open, that is when the Allevyn was ideal because it created a moist healing environment. I know that sounds kind of gross, but that is the newest school of thought on wound healing - that the tissue heals fast in a moist environment, so you sort of want to keep all of the wound seepage in there and only change the dressing once per day. Then, once my would actually closed up and the hypergranulation was dangling out (eeeew!), then I needed to try to keep it dry in the hopes that the hypergranulation would sort of harden up on its own. I ended up seeing a plastic surgeon at about 7 week post partum, when everything was pretty much closed up. The plastic surgeon told me that if I would have come in to see him a little sooner, he could have numbed me up right in the office just removed that excess hypergranulation tissue.

Hi, thank you so much for all your responces. thanks for all the info Nerdy Girl!!! I so appriciate it. I saw my doctor today and she definatly minimized it. Its funny because my mom said she probably would as what could she say. I mean she did a pretty bad job as it looks awful. My first csection scar looked great. However my pain diminished completlty over the night last night. I still went in, but am no longer in any pain. My incision is still pink and a little irritated looking and she told me if it gets redder and starts oozing again then to come see her. She gave me more pain pills. Hopefully its like what you described sahmof3 and will go away. Reading about infections after csections has been enough to scare the c___p out of me... But I am so happy with my cute little girl. She is a doll..... Although always hungry....

Bumping this up for Rachel.