If you came home with a drain come in!

[wordygirl74 45]

I went in Monday for my band to sleeve revision an woke up with no sleeve. My band was so badly damaged that it too a lot to get it out and clean out the scar tissue. I am still very disappointed but glad my surgeon was being cautious about it. I also woke up with a drain. Ugh. On the top of my list of things I didn't want. It won't come out until next week when I see the doc.

So here's the question.. How do you shower with it? The nurse changed the dressing before I left today and sent me home with 1 extra bandage and tape and said try not to it wet in the shower. How the heck am I supposed to manage that!?

[Ah0505 42]

I had mine removed before I came home but I did shower with it while in the hospital. My dressing got wet but it was changed pretty quickly. How about taking a Baggie or strong plastic wrap and taping (waterproof tape) it over the dressing??? Or just grab some gauze and tape and just change the dressing after your shower?

[slikchik10 85]

Ok, I came home with a drain for week. I just showered with the bandage. After, I would put a clean bandage on after showering. I would clean around the area with alcohol, put on a clean gauze square. After my drain was removed, I did the same except my Dr. said I could begin using some Neosporan when it began to scab over. After a good scab formed, I switched to aloe...and I put this on all my incisions. They're healing great! Good luck.

[Firëfly 39]

I came home with two of them. Tried the plastic wrapping both in the hospital and at home with no real success on keeping things dry. I just got where I would reapply bandages every day after my shower until they were removed a week after surgery. I then kept changing everyday until I didn't need anything covering up the incision lines.