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Hey guys,

Sitting here at work reading the posts and wondering how you were closed? Did you have staples or stitches or like me have the glue? I liked not having anything that would have to dissolve or be taken out. I have healed really good and the glue is just beginning to peel off. No problems...I was banded on 04-14-09.

Just wondering how everyone else was done.....

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I was glued and stapled. Staples were removed 1 week after my procedure.

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i was glued in october and the scars are barley visable now.

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I had a couple of dissolvable stitches and mostly glue. The scars are almost non-existent with only the port scar showing a little bit more than the others. Really it looks quite good and healed up phenomenally. Old ghosts of stretch marks from 15 years ago look worse than the scars. I think glue works great.

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No stitches, glue, or staples. My incisions were covered with Steri-Strips and then covered with Gauze. After a few days, the gauze fell off and a couple weeks later the stri-strips started falling off.

Hey guys,

Sitting here at work reading the posts and wondering how you were closed? Did you have staples or stitches or like me have the glue? I liked not having anything that would have to dissolve or be taken out. I have healed really good and the glue is just beginning to peel off. No problems...I was banded on 04-14-09.

Just wondering how everyone else was done.....

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stitched on the inside and steri-strips on the outside.

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I had the glue as well...only I had an allergic reaction to it.

After about 4 or 5 days post op, I started to develop a rash on and around all of my incisions. I was instructed to take Benadryl and put Hydrocortizone around each incision. I was not allowed to put anything directly on the incisions.

It was awful. I was soooo freakin' miserable. Not just from the excruciating itching, but from the Benadryl induced coma. :ohmy:

At my first post op appointment, the PA told me that my incisions were healed enough to go home and take off the glue with nail polish remover....because my body was still reacting negatively to it.

I don't have very good experiences with band-aids or surgical tape either, which was probably a warning sign...but my surgeon never discussed how my incisions would be closed with me. I assumed I would be stitched. I was wrong.

I'm 5 weeks post op today and my scabs have fallen off and my incisions look and feel great! Now, if only that darn port would stop making my abs sore...

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Staples! :-( and I'm not happy about it. My skin reacted very badly and became red and inflamed around them. They left them there for 2 weeks. The staple scars are worse than the surgery scars! My port scar..the big one doesn't seem to have healed right either, it's very bumpy and ridge like. I'm thinking about calling them and asking if that can't be fixed somehow... for pete's sake they are plastic surgeons! I know in the grand sceme of things it's not that big a deal, but I feel like crying whenever I look at it.

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I had glue. I have glue only on 2 incisions, my port and the one next to it. The other 3 are all glue-free and are nice, small pretty scars. I'm pretty pleased with how they look and I'm only 3 1/2 weeks post-op, so I know they'll get lighter and lighter over time.

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No stitches, glue, or staples. My incisions were covered with Steri-Strips and then covered with Gauze. After a few days, the gauze fell off and a couple weeks later the stri-strips started falling off.

me too!!!!!!!

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