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Wow, why did you guys have so many incisions? I have only one & it is in my belly button-can't see it except for a bit of surgical glue that hasn't fallen off yet.

Method used (regular lap vs lap assisted by robot, etc...) if there was also another surgery piggy backed on that such as a hernia repair and body type. I had 4 or 5 (they are all too faded to recall now), but part of that was due to having had 3 prior incisions from my hysterectomy and scarring from an abscess. Some of use get more, some of us get less.

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My doc has a compounding pharmacy send us both a scar pain cream that dries and protects the incisions and then a reduction cream. So far one of my incisions is completely healed with no scar and two more well on their way. Then i have two more that are still scabby. I am 18 days post surgery. See if your doc has anything like that. Mine were covered under insurance

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Hello, do you remember the name of the cream you were given? How do your incision scars look now?

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