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I want to post my scar pic but it's GIGANTIC.. can I please send it to somebody and have them resize it? the program I have at my work won't let me resize it....

I don't know.....It seems to me that with belly stretch marks especially REALLY bad ones from babies (like freddy Kruger got a hold of you) your skin is stretched sooooo thin that it would seem to stitch it back together and make it look realitively seemless would be near impossible. I beg to differ on the stretch marks not making any difference I think it would make the art of suturing a clean incision difficult. Just my opinion.

I dont know how to put pictures on so i had to send it from my cell phone to the pc. I hope this works

14 days post op

My scar!!! Still icky bandages. Just banded yesterday. Ewwwwww!!!

Here are my scars - Day 7 (I took this on Monday)... there is actually still some like gummy tape residue on some of the scars... I can't get the crap off.. oh well.. I'm sure it will eventually wash off. There is also one little teenie scar further up that I didnt' realize my hubby cut off in the picture as it's under my sweater but its the smallest one and completely healed and not noticeable.. I feel weird posting my stretchmarked belly, which, let me tell you, the picture MAGNIFIES stretchmarks.. lol The port scar looks really huge, but it's just shy of 2 inches. ( And thanks to Losingjusme for resizing this for me!! love ya girl! )

You are healing up so nicely - and only on day 7!!! Check me out (i'm above you). I still look like someone who belongs on CSI!

Thank you! I'll probably take another picture for day 14 and put them side by side or something. I had the steri strips too.. the only thing that sucks about them is getting them off... I took this pic right after I had gotten the last bit of the steri strip off in the shower... they bugged the heck out of me and that glue.. ICK. I still have pieces of it on me that I can't get off! I can't wait to see yours after you get all that off

Here I am day 17. Doesn't look much different from day 7 actually. I think it looks a tinge redder.

heres my scars like 2.5 months post op

First photo was a couple days post-op (heh, please excuse the half boob and the bad taken-from-my-computer quality).

Second photo was tonight, 7 weeks out, taken by my boyfriend.

The bruising below the port scar in the second pic is from my first fill this past Wednesday.

Thanks everyone for all these pictures. I saw someone with staples. It was in 2005. I was wondering if that's still the norm or is it mostly sutures now?

i had staples in mine and i just got it done it jan, its totally up to ur surgeon, my doc said its the easiest and safest way when it comes to healing but i guess u just gotta ask him/her. and they didnt hurt at all, even when they pulled em out.

My Dr actually used surgical glue to close me up. I am very please that I had no external stitches. I think it really help decrease the scarring. Ironically, I just had a tummy tuck and my PS used the same method. cut from hip to hip and not one external stitch. Its healing nicely.

Will that arnica montana work on old scars?

arnica montana is for the bruising after the surgery. I used it and had wonderful results. scar gels/creams with aloe vera are great for the following months as you heal to help keep the scar from raising.