bruises anyone?

[mishicokpi 8]

Hi... so I had surgery on the 29... and last night before I was discharged my bfriend looks at my tummy and sees this huge bruise in the right part of my stomach... it's like 5 in radius... the doctor said not to worry about it... but why I'm I having that bruise? Long long those it take to go away? And today I noticed that my other incisions have a little bit of a bruise too... =/ is it because I walk and stand up by myself?.. help =(

[srs82781 83]

Very common, the muscle underneath has been through a lot of trauma. My bruises showed up a few days out, my doc gave me a anticoagulant blood thinner injection in my stomach that had a massive bruise in that area. I'm sure you had some to maybe thru IV so that you didn't get blood clots post op, and the blood thinner makes a person bruise so much easier then normal. Hope that helps

[itsabouttime2013 2]

I also have bruises. I have seven holes because of the way my ribs are. I also have 2 bruises on my underwear line that were not incissions. My dr. Xhecked it in the hospital yesterday and said everything looks great. He said some people bruise more that others. I hope your feeling great!!!

[mishicokpi 8]

I have a huge bruise... hope it goes away... thanks for the response I'm calm now =)

[EmH78 2]

I too had a huge bruise...u may even notice more in the next week or so due to blood thinner they may have given you. Mine are finally starting to go away, I was sleeved 5/20

[soocalchic 1,087]

Surgery is not a delicate process folks with that said some of that bruising is probably from the blood thinner injections you were given on your tummy..

[kiwi63 22]

I'm black and blue even on the side of my boob.

I've had laparoscopic surgery before and remember that I was badly bruised then too. It's perfectly normal. Your body has suffered massive trauma and this is just its way of showing it. It'll soon clear up.

[mistysj 1,940]

I got bruises from the heparin injections. No big deal.