Shower

[jerseyguy 8]

This might be a silly question but I will ask it anyway. I am getting banded on Friday and I have seen people mention there bandages over the scars. My question is can you shower right away with the bandages on or do you have to wait a few days?

[readyforme73 6]

I was banded on 12/13 and was able to shower the next day. My incisions had steri strips and bandaids on them and I was told by the nurse that if the bandaids or even the steri stips came off it was ok, but the steri stips stayed on until today when at my post op appointment they were removed.

Good Luck on Friday

[SageTracey 608]

No such thing as a silly question. You can't be expected to know everything. My surgeon placed large plastic bandaid type bandages over my incisions. They stuck to my skin and I was able to shower right away.

[jalangy 2]

I just had to wait 24 hours to shower and remove the band aids

[Banditiff 51]

I had to wait 48 hours to shower, 7 days to actually take a bath and 1 month to swim!

Watch Me Shrink BandiTiff

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,721]

i stayed overnight and took a shower the moment i got home...nurses/dr said it was fine and i kept my back to the hotwater and that def helped when my shoulder began hurting...i also did the bath (again not getting the incisions wet).

[Mama2girls 28]

I had the dermabond skin glue so I could shower immediately.

[MadeinMO 16]

I didn't have any bandages I had dermabond on all my incisions and I showered that next day at the hospital with no problems, took about 2 weeks for all the glue to come off and after that then I was able to bathe!