Cool Granny #21

[Cool Granny]

I had my band in jan 24 and I was told not to mess with strips over incisions, that they would fall/slough off themselves. Here it is 10 days later and several showers later and they are still on, is that normal that they stay on so long?

[54Shirley]

Yep ! They will fall off in time or your Dr. will remove them on your visit.
That's what mine did anyway.
But it's NORMAL!

[SkinnyMiniMe]

YEP! Mine took forever to come off. Almost 2 weeks. I tried to take one off myself bad mistake it look that it was going to open up again so I put the strip back on.

Bert Martinez Yarbrough, on February 5, 2012 - 5:11 PM, said:

I had my band in jan 24 and I was told not to mess with strips over incisions, that they would fall/slough off themselves. Here it is 10 days later and several showers later and they are still on, is that normal that they stay on so long?

[Cool Granny]

ok, I'll leave alone, ladies, I was just worried abit because I'm allergice to latex adhesive and wanted to make sure that wasn't the problem.

Thanks,

[JustDoIt130]

My surgeon used super glue too. I have 4- one big one by my belly button and 3 others- one to hold up my liver, one for the camera and one for the instruments.

I think they'll fade, and like someone else said, my stretch marks are worse

[Dawn200321]

I had 5 incisions and all the scars seem to be fading except the one across my stomach. That one still is bright red... :/ oh well its only been 4 months so maybe as the years go by it will fade away?

[ducker2010]

Yeah, my stretch marks are definitely going to be way worse!

[Holly Dolly]

BandedWithLuv, on February 3, 2012 - 1:38 PM, said:

I'm 3 years post-op and my stomach is covered in stretch marks, which are far more noticeable than my surgical incisions. My port scar healed up to less than an inch, and you really have to look for it among all my stretch marks. I'm sure the incisions would bother me / be more noticeable if not for all of the stretch marks.....Did I mention all my stretch marks? Haha

How funny! I just checked mine myself and thought the same thing! I see stretch marks but had to look real close to see my scars! It's all good!

[SkinnyMiniMe]

I just invested $22 yesterday on Scar Away. Hope it works because my scars are dark