I am about 3 months (woo hoo) post op, and my incisions have been itching like crazy! They are also really red. I have never had incisions before, so I don't know if this is normal or not. Have any of you experienced this? What can I do to get rid of the itching? It is driving me nuts!
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I am 7 months out and still get an occasional itch! It may have to do with shrinking skin along/around the incision lines? I'd like to think so, anyway. I just goop them up with some antibiotic ointment and it feels better. You can get the kind with topical anesthetic in it (lidocaine?) and that's handy dandy. You don't think that Pain Relief feature works well till you have put Neosporin on your chapped lips out of desperation and wonder why they're numb. Then look at the tube and see "with Pain Relief!". Yes, I did that.
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I am also 7 mths out and mine still itch. Mine are red and raised, nothing like some of the fine white scars I have seen pics of. I cant help you with the itching, I just thought it was normal and put up with it, I will be interested to hear what others say.
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LMBO.... I agree....I'm 4 months out and they still itch time to time. LOL My stomach looks like a battlefield filled with scars. Lap Band, gallbladdar removal, stretch marks and etc. ....LMBO....Let me get up off the floor....
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A lot of people think scars heal quickly, but it's not unusal for it to take months - maybe years. The scars themselves actually don't itch - they have no nerve endings. Unless they're oozing, inflamed, streaked -- it's just the surrounding nerves getting stimulated (weight loss and the resulting shrinking of the surrounding skin would be one type of stimulation - healing would be another). A lot of people complain that even years after surgery, their scars will itch when the weather changes. And wounds that leave/require scars aren't really considered healed (medically) for 12 - 24 months.
Wow, Wheetsin, that's really interesting! My scars healed up very quickly and I never feel them, so if anything like that were to happen I'd have been very concerned. Thanks for the enlightening information!
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Wow! Thanks for the advice....although I think I will avoid putting the neosporin on my lips! It's nice to know that I'm (somewhat - ha) normal.
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Regarding incisions, I'll be two wks post op 5-8-08 and my scars are healing extremely well. I've been using Dr. Fred Palmer's skin whitener on all but the largest one has a little scab still. I avoid the cream on that one. I also use cocoa butter. I think just the fact that there're being attending gives them a better appearance.
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