Bruising

[Rachel 28]

I had my surgery on Monday, July 8th so that makes me five days post-op. Anyway, I noticed last night around 8:00 pm that I have a bruise about the size of the palm of my hand over by my belly button. It wouldn't be from the heparin injections because those were administered in my thighs. Anyway, I was wondering what this is from and if I should be concerned.

[JoiaRox 430]

Is that where one of your incision sites are? It's normal to get bruising near those areas if there was any trauma to the area! While I didn't have any bruising with my sleeve, my LapBand removal had a ton of bruising around my former port area - they had to fight that sucker to remove it from my muscle wall!

[Rachel 28]

Is that where one of your incision sites are? It's normal to get bruising near those areas if there was any trauma to the area! While I didn't have any bruising with my sleeve, my LapBand removal had a ton of bruising around my former port area - they had to fight that sucker to remove it from my muscle wall!

Yeah, I do have an incision right by the bruise.

[JoiaRox 430]

I'd recommend calling your doctor anyway, especially if the bruise grows or looks odd (at 5 days out, it should be done "bruising" at this point), but my money would be on what I said above. Good luck!

[Rachel 28]

Okay, something just occurred to me that is a little embarrassing to admit. The embarrassing part is that I didn't think of this sooner. I did a lot of walking yesterday and during all that walking the waistband of my pants really irritated that area. Now I'm thinking that the bruise was caused by that irritation.

[mpi 5]

Hi Rachel,

I too bruised a lot after my band was removed, but not with the sleeve surgery done 11 days ago. EXCEPT.... One incision (I've just posted a thread 2 minutes ago....have a read)

Is around the bruise hard?

[Rachel 28]

No, it's not hard.

[mpi 5]

Well I think that's a good sign.

If it was hard, I was thinking you had what I had.

Don't worry too much about it.

When my band was removed, most of my left side of my tummy was bruised, but faded quickly.