How Long Until Your Incisions Were Completely Healed?

[OilSooner 23]

I will be starting week 7 on Tuesday, and my incisions are still red, and the main one (where the stomach came out) still has a scab, Is this normal? I did have diabetes before surgery (blood sugar is normal now, and has been for several weeks), so I was thinking that could be slowing things up. It doesnt look like I should call the surgeon, but I just wanted to see what the consensus was out there.

How long until the incisions completely healed for you?

[AliveAgain 283]

Tomorrow is my four-week surgiversary, done laparoscopically, and all skin incisions closed with surgical glue. The first two came off at the beginning of week two, well healed. The third around day 20, the fourth and fifth (the two closet to the belly button) at the beginning of week three. The last two are still a little red along the incision line, nothing abnormal. Healing very nicely, applying Vitamin E every day. I was not diabetic prior to surgery, so not sure if this could be the reason for you.

Not sure how your surgery was done or if you had staples, etc. -- but you may want to call your doctor just to find out. Most likely they'll come off when they're ready and they've done their job

[OilSooner 23]

Thanks for the input.

I had sutures and steri strips. Strips came off after about two weeks, and the last of the sutures came up out of the skin last weekend, so I pulled them out with tweezers.

All incisions are still red at this point though.

[Thomas CPA 496]

I had staples, removed at the two week follow up, felt like healing (scabs) fell off at 4th or 5th week but believe everything healed sooner than that. There was still minor discomfort for a few weeks but nothing to distract me.

[tempred 0]

I had diabetes prior to surgery, I only had the glue afterwards. All of my incisions were healed the beginning of week 3. I don't know if that has anything to do with using the glue VS stitches or not.

I would call your dr, 7 weeks sounds like a long time to me.

[Lissa 2,631]

All of my incisions but one healed completely by the third or fourth week. The one where I had my drain took several weeks longer to heal over completely and is still pinker than the surrounding skin at 5 months out. It is also the only incision I can still find. I have been sporadically putting oil on my skin to aid in the healing, but I dont do it every day because I forget.