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I was sleeved 6/21/13 everything was going great until they took out my staples at one week post op! I now am discovering a very itchy belly with what appears to be swelling and bumps around my incisions, they are healing well but around them is chaos ! Has anyone else have this? What has helped?

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They took out your staples, I never heard that before. As far as I know they went in one time and were done

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No dear staples from my sites they cut on my belly! On the out side

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I was sleeved 6/21/13 everything was going great until they took out my staples at one week post op! I now am discovering a very itchy belly with what appears to be swelling and bumps around my incisions, they are healing well but around them is chaos ! Has anyone else have this? What has helped?

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Did you maybe have tape around your incisions? I didn't have staples on my incisions; I had steristrips. But some people are allergic to the adhesive in medical tape. Hope this helps. And hope it clears up soon!

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After they took my staples off they put steri strips on and I think that is when it happened

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I was sleeved 6/21/13 everything was going great until they took out my staples at one week post op! I now am discovering a very itchy belly with what appears to be swelling and bumps around my incisions' date=' they are healing well but around them is chaos ! Has anyone else have this? What has helped?

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I had the same reaction except I had sterns trips covering my incisions and once they fell off I developed some irritation around the sites. Itching, redness and a little swelling because I was scratching. I used neosporin around and it cleared up. I hope this help.

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Remember not to scratch. try to "pat" the itch. it really helps

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I am really trying hard it looks like I rolled around in poison oak!

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Oh Gotcha, ya no staples here either, just those strips, some incisions have lots of bruising others none, first week follow up, doc said it was normal

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I was sleeved 6/21/13 everything was going great until they took out my staples at one week post op! I now am discovering a very itchy belly with what appears to be swelling and bumps around my incisions' date=' they are healing well but around them is chaos ! Has anyone else have this? What has helped?

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I had no swelling I also didnt have staples but I did had a lot of itching and bumps around incision and glue my doc told me to get bacitraycin and now things are better call ya doc maybe they can suggest something

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