Can you hear that sloshing noise?

Nine days after surgery, I had my wound drain removed. As a result, the collecting fluid was no longer able to be expelled from my body. Sometimes post-mastectomy pooling needs to be aspirated depending on the amount of liquid produced and your body’s ability to absorb the liquid.

The day after the drain was removed, I began to hear sloshing sounds and I could feel liquid squishing in my mastectomy breast area. I also discovered that when I lifted my elbow up and down, like a chicken flapping its wings, I could literally make squishy farting noises inside my chest from the liquid that was pooling in my mastectomy area. It would have been hell funny if I were a primary school aged boy, but instead I found that it sounded and felt disgusting.

My outer underarm area felt quite swollen and slightly pushed outwards so I headed back to the hospital ward for investigation by the nurses and doctor in charge. Thankfully my pooling was "normal" and the nurses said my wounds looked great. The pooling and sloshing was normal activity and they said mine was within normal proportions. This put my mind at ease so I took my sloshing Uniboob and went on my merry way.

I was relieved to have the wound drain removed but not so happy about the resulting sloshing noises and squishy feelings