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I'm just wondering if your doctors used the same incision area from lapband for the sleeve?

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My dr used different sites. Band fitted 2008, removed 2012 through port incision. Sleeved 13 months later. Two different dr's did the procedure.

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some of my incisions were same but there two or so new ones.

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They told me they would use the same incisions. They didn't, they made all new ones and they did one incision in my belly button! That freaked me out, I don't know why.

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Most don't like too because of the scar tissue from the previous incision. And sometimes when they do use and an old incision it causes the new scar to keloid (raised scar and thicker than a "normal" scar).

As for the belly button incision a lot of surgeons like to use them because it is one less visible.

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That's interesting, and it makes sense. It was my surgeons assistant that mentioned reusing the old sites. It never would have occurred to me to ask. So I was surprised to see new sites.

I couldn't see the belly button one, the glue came off that one very early. I was imagining it being deep inside, like at the base of the opening. I kept worring about it opening, not healing, it being moist in there. I actually asked my hubby to look in my belly button and tell me where the scar was. Turns out it was just a small horizontal line just inside the top side of the opening. Then I relaxed!

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I have all the same except one new which I'm guessing is the one my stomach came out of as its a little larger.

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