incision care

[dcoates 0]

I was sleeved Feb 9th.

all but the largest of my incisions have healed.

the large one on the right is almost healed BUT it weeps dard red blood from it.

Not a lot, about a quarter size spot on the bandage.

very little pain,looks good, no fever.

is this normal?

thanks.

[vickie 3]

I am 9 days post op and my incisions are almost all healed up. Look like little scars right now. Only one has a scab but does not bleed at all.

[SarahS 13]

It took me over 2-3 weeks before mine were closed. My steri-stripes came off and some a my incisions opened, so I put some more on. I figured it took mine a while to heal since I was around 356 pounds at the time of surgery and my skin was pretty stretched.

Do you have stitches or steri stripes? If your incision is open, you can get some steri stripes most places. A little blood isn't a problem, just watch if it bleeds more.

[KabinKitty 11]

Dr. Oz says, dark red blood is old blood. Bright red is a new bleed. I would take that to mean it is blood from where your insides are healing and it's making it's way out.

The incision you're talking about may be from your J tube. That was my only incision that was not steri-striped and I got a tiny bit of pinkish drainage for about a week. I kept gause on it for about 3 days then after my shower I would put antibiotic cream and a bandaid on it. I never had any pain with mine.

I'm still doing the cream and bandaid as this incision is very close to the waistband area and gets rubbed. Mine is no longer open and my surgery was February 2nd. If you have any worries I would call the doctor's office and see what he or the nurse says.

[Billy363627 15]

I had surger the 1st of February and I had bleeding the inital day of surgery but no more.. I would think it would be fine unless you started getting redness around incision and fever. If you have any questions call the doctors nurse to verify and make sure there is nothing to worry about..