Sleeve, And Deep Water>>>Help Please<<<

[gramaof4 58]

I was sleeved on Feb 27th, I started back to Water arobics yesterday!....oh my it was sooo good to be back in the water....I went and bought some water proof bandaids and put one over my drain incision which is healed, but just want to make certain...was awesome...no tummy crunching exercises....

[Enerfina 50]

awesome! man i want to get in the Water so bad!.. do u think water is going to get in the incisions?

[gramaof4 58]

If they are almost healed, I just used a waterproof bandaid and was only in for an hour. use your own judgement!

[TinkerToyz 45]

Personally I would not get in Water till my incisions were totally healed. I definitely would not immerse my body in the ocean with the potential of a bacterial contamination. I would not trust a bandaid to be leak proof. The sacrifice of waiting a few extra days is nothing compaired to a post surgical wound infection.

[SuperMom 33]

Salt Water contains MANY bacteria and one of them is especially nasty Vibrio species (have to use a special antibiotic causes nasty blisters and BAD INFECTIONS)......don't get in the salt water until your doctor says it is ok......now a chlorine pool might be different....check with your doctor.....

[BeautyVGSJourney 99]

I agree with supermom, and even after your doc says ok, you might want to consider using some Water proof band aids (test them under running water ) for a little while, its better safe than sorry.

[BeautyVGSJourney 99]

That is if you had laporoscopic surgery. That being said I am not sure how good those things are in salt Water, I have used them in pools and they work well if you put them on right and are not in for hours (clean the area where you are going to stick the band aid with alcohol, but not the cut only the skin where the sticky still will go, it will help it stick better.)

[gramaof4 58]

My incisions were all healed but the drain port was a very thin layer of new skin...so just as a precaution I used a Water proof bandaid (not in salt water)...but a regular swim pool....was in for 1 hr...and when I removed the waterproof bandaid, the incision was not wet, damp and had no condensation, was completely dry....Now they are all healed over really good with the brown looking scar....

So I would say follow what your doc says....mine said I was perfectly fine to resume normal activity with the exception of ANY TYPE tummy crunching...he said to wait 6 weeks for that.