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Hey everybody. Just found and joined this forum tonight (Awesome Group🤩👍). I'm curious to know how you handled your incisions. I had my surgery 8/19/19 and my surgeon used this blue-colored "second skin" bandage on top of the stitches. It's starting to peel off (more like flake off) and I don't want them to come off too soon, because moisture helps tremendously with healing. What have you all done for yours?

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Is it a glue? They put a glue over my stitches to help prevent infection. It’s suppose to start lifting and peeling on its own within 7-10 according to my surgeon and discharge nurse. I was told not to submerge myself in Water (showers were okay) and no creams.

I too had surgery on 8/19/19 VSG

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Surgery Twins! 😆😆👍

Mine sounds just like yours. My surgeon unfortunately didn't provide me with after care instructions for the incisions 😑

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On 08/27/2019 at 23:03, AmazonLindsie said:



Surgery Twins! 😆😆👍




Mine sounds just like yours. My surgeon unfortunately didn't provide me with after care instructions for the incisions 😑


Oh no. Also has it been itchy for you around the glue?

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Yes! Like crazy. It's most likely just the skin healing, though

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It's fine. If they aren't red or hot, then no worries. It comes off when it comes off. Showers are fine, but I was told no swimming pools, hot tubs, or Water emersion until the glue came off and the sites had completely healed. I think that was 4 week? Maybe 6....can't remember any more.

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I had little edges of the glue lifting before I wanted the glue to peel away so I used nail clippers to trim those off because they kept catching on my clothes and tugging on the rest of the glue.

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16 hours ago, Nicki100 said:

I haven't had the surgery yet, so I’m taking notes...

Me too, I am still taking notes. My first consult with the surgeon is in the morning.

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My started peeling around 2 weeks but the areas where to glue stayed on closer to 4 weeks have healed better (lighter in color and thinner scar). My suggestion would be to try and not peel the glue off. I was allowed to shower after a few days but I would lightly rub my soapy hand over the incisions, I didn't use a sponge or washcloth over them.

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Thank you everyone! Congrats to you guys having your surgeries

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I was just instructed to leave the glue on as long as possible, that it would help me scar less. Unfortunately I scar so easily that didn't make a difference. But it also got so itchy that i began picking at it after about 2 weeks, oops but all was well and i'm all healed.

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Well I'm showing up here to relate my take. it's incisional but a little different. I just had a volar ganglion cyst REMOVED, to educate you a little it was on the back of my Left wrist a little ways from the thumb. ABOUT AS BIG AS A QUARTER. Now they are always non- cancerous, many people just leave them alone, some have them REMOVED from appearance. Mine sat right over top of a nerve and the radial artery, my thumb and 1st finger would go Numb in between sessions of pain. So Cyster J Cyst had to go!
It says prominately on my chart and paperwork- No Hibiclez- No chlorhexadine- because I am very allergic to them. Found out when I had my 2nd knee replacement and my leg blistered and about lost skin peeling off. Don't know what my orthopaedic surgeon painted my arm with this time, thought maybe betadine, never a problem with THAT. Well within a day my arm started o I blistering and peeling skin, had to at d it , wash it off with gentle soap and Water, then when dry put on cortisone cream and re-h it. Its now 4 days past, yesterday I had to do it again, this time the whole lower arm, even where my incision was. He doesn't plan to remove the stitches until September 11, so I was at a loss. Finally remembered I had some dressing change kits from when I had my PICC line in for malnutrition/ giving my gastrointestinal ulcers a chance to heal. Never washed the surgical wound itself, didn't want contamination there, but put on Tegaderm and then re-wrapped it with all new gauze. Today the bumpy rash is going away, Goody Goody Gumdrops, feel like I dodged the bullet there but if any of you have similar symptoms with your tummy wounds ,at least let your doctor know, go to the ER, nobody wants to suffer with a rash like MINE. And yes, when I see him on the 11th I SHALL FIND OUT what was used, it needs to go on my chart ---NEVER AGAIN! In just a few months I am scheduled to have my Left Rotator cuff repaired and THIS WILL NOT happen AGAIN!✊! There have got to be other alternatives to what was used.👍

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