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Hi, just wondering how long it took for your your incisions to heal? A couple of my incisions were a little larger than with the lap band, I am assuming because they had to take out the lapband and revise to the sleeve. I try not to look at them. Also, they glued them together and used small staples as well. I feel like I had a Tummy Tuck, because my tummy is firm, just looks a bit weird. My doc said the staples will come out at the first appointment. With the lapband I had dissolvable sutures. My doc said she removed some scars from the last surgery too, okay hook me up will you. I am grateful for that, but the mini staples look frankensteinish.

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I only had the glue and mine healed super fast. In just a couple of weeks they looked great.

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20something days out and mine aren't even scabbed over anymore.

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I only had the glue and mine healed super fast. In just a couple of weeks they looked great.

Hope mine heal the same way, thanks for your response.

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20something days out and mine aren't even scabbed over anymore.

That's great, did you have mini staples too.

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Nope! Just steristrips and glue

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everyone heals at a different rate - I'm a month out and mine are just now healed. 2 of them were fully healed after 2 weeks, one was healed last week and the other two are just now healed. I had removable sututres.

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