I currently have been dealng with a recurrent subareolar breast abscess. I was first treated with ten days of keflex two times a day, in which it got better but then came back. Next I went to a breast surgeon and she performed incision and drainage and another ten days of keflex. The abscess still would not heal so I had surgery a few days ago in which the surgeon removed the abscess and I thnk some of the infected ducts. My question is what is the likely hood that this will reoccur again, and im not sure if she removed all of my ducts or just the ones in the affected area. I so do ot want to have to go through this again and the daily changing of packing amd repacking is very painful. I have read tons of surgical journal articles and feel as if there s no clear answers on reoccurence and why this occurs.
This discussion is related to chronic retroareola abscess.