When Do The Incisions Heal?

[Futureskinnyperson 29]

Hi All!

I am just over 3 weeks out and cannot believe that my incisions from the surgery have not healed yet!! Can someone tell me how long it took for theirs to heal?

The biggest one....on the left where the stomach was pulled out....seems like it is never going to not have a scab on it and the others are slowly.....and it really does seems slower than normal.... healing. Is this normal? When is it just a scar and not a scab anymore?

How long before the scars fade....mine are still very dark.....

Thanks!

[MinaT 669]

Will be 8 weeks out on Monday. I have a little scab on one, because there is still a real stitch in there and it's too low to get out and I just have to wait for it to work out.

A few of the other incisions have clear stitches sticking out...enough to interfere with my underwear (it pokes through). If you rub your hand across my belly and incisions the clear, supposedly dissolvable stitches, scrape me.

It will heal, just give it some time.

[Magsnlucy 10]

I'll be two months out on Sunday. My last one has finally begun to close. I know how you feel. EVERYTIME I thought it was scanning over, I would get in the shower and when I got out and the scan was gone. I had to start the healing process over again. As weird as it sounds, this is just your bodies way of healing. Let it do what it does naturally. An this might be weird too, but try swimming in a chlorine filled pool. For me it boosted the process and sort of dried the wound up! Lol

[TinaMari 75]

I'm 9 days post op. My incisions are almost fully heeled. My biggest incision where the stomach as pulled out heeled the fastest. The scabs are almost non existent. I suppose everyone's heeling process varies.

[JD7176 84]

I'm 6 weeks out and my biggest one finally healed. That incision wasn't fully closed after I took off the steri strips and left a hole so it took a while to close up. I learned though that even though my skin had healed I still had the soreness inside.

[O.T.R. sleever 3,386]

It will take longer than you are use to. Remember you are not getting all the nutrition your body is use to. The amount of nutrients your body can put toward healing is therefore limited.

[zonia horton 1]

I am six wks out and my big incision is still very raw. It opened completely. My regular doctor put me on antibiotics. But still taking forever to heal! He told me to leave open, but it is scary to leave it like that. Glad to hear it took others over 2 months to heal. Tired of spending more money on this...

[cindyt 24]

At my biggest incision in my belly button where they pulled the stomach out the doc must have nicked a small vessel...I had a ginormous bruise ....a month later and it is finally starting to fade...so hideous! My incisions are all closed little slits. Overall I think they will fade nicely. I have been purring bio oil on them.