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Topic: help with picc line

Pepsi
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6191

posted

hello fellow lyme friends

i had picc line put in 2 weeks ago
still redness above line
and itchy around entrance to skin

sorry for my speech but i suffer stroke from lyme a year ago and am slow to type and recovering

tried shots for last year but my skin so thin from no movement, getting swollen bumpies on beehind! ha ha ha
so dr now change to picc for iv medicine
for two weeks now

i put hot heat on top near swollen an its better
but how long should red and itchy this last???

humbly yours,
pepsi-cola

thank you

Posts: 176 | From Seattle, WA | Registered: Sep 2004 | IP: Logged |

SpdDrv
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 5861

posted

hello Pepsi
I have a picc line in, it was placed on August 25th in my upper arm above my elbow but bewlow my shoulder and hadn't really had a problem eith it.
After about 2 1/2 weeks I didn't even know it was there amd never do unless I happen to bump it real hard or yank on it! (I keep doing silly things and yanking on the stitches) That is NOT FUN!!

They just had to put new stitches in so mine is a little itchy so to speak now but it is where the stitches are not where the line goes in. I can't even feel that spot as hurting when I just touch it.
It shouldn't take but a couple of weeks and it will be better and you will be set to go. I do anything I can/want with my picc line. I work with the post office and when I was still able to work I tried working then. I didn't have any trouble working the mail (and I sort and box mail lefthanded) just afterwards I was a little sore, the fatigue was the killer for me!
I am not sure a hot heating bad would be such a good idea just gets really HOT. That will make it sweat more which makes it itch more etc etc etc.
You should start to noticing a change in the picc line and how it feels soon i think.
Stacie

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kam
Honored Contributor (10K+ posts)
Member # 3410

posted

Pepsi,

It will probably be fine soon. My second PICC line stayed red longer than the other one, but NP was not concerned.

It did finally go away and stop itching.

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Pepsi
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6191

posted

thanks speeddriver and kamy
stacie, i put heat on arm where swollen
nurse say to do...not on line but above it
not swollen now and felt good

much better today
no more itching

u good people

thank u

humbly yours,
pepsi-cola

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