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I am almost four weeks post surgery, and all my incisions have closed except for my drain tube. My Dr. said it was healing from the inside out, but after two months she said that if it was not closed, she could cut the edges and then stitch it back together. Does anyone else have this issue and how long did it take to heal fully? I cant start my weight training until this improves because of the location and the fact that it will put to much stress in that area nor can I get into the pool to low impact cardio.

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Which one is the drain tube?

5'10 Sleeved 9/25/17 HW: 309 SW: 278
CW: 255 GW: 190



It depends if your doctor used a drain you would know if you had a drain if you had one. It is the only uncomfortable aspect of the VGS in my case


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I don't know what "average" is, but that was the first thing to close up for me.

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Mine is still open a little bit - I am diabetic and so I guess I probably heal slower especially since I have had a difficult time controlling my blood sugar since surgery. I also have a spot in the middle up towards the breast bone that is still "open." I also have a dog bite that is still somewhat open (a little dog but a deep bite). It is driving me nuts that I am not healed because I also want to go into the pool. Mine is closed enough that if I weight trained I would feel comfortable --- I think.

All my other incisions are healed up.

Hopefully you dont have to have it stitched up.

Part of my issue is I was using hydrogen peroxide and that apparently slows the healing process too.

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Just now, Walter.Sobchak said:

I used a butterfly stitch on mine as well. It closed up pretty quickly. The drain pull itself was pretty gross.

I probably should have done that. That drain coming out was WEIRD feeling. It felt like they were pulling intestines out or something haha.

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I probably should have done that. That drain coming out was WEIRD feeling. It felt like they were pulling intestines out or something haha.


My surgeon's partner did mine. He didn't do a count down or anything he just yanked it out. Felt very weird.


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