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How long until the steril strips fall off?

I think that's what they are called anyway. The strips that you are supposed to let fall off on their own (I think they are like stitches).

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I had surgery ont Wednesday and the strips on 2 of my cuts have fallen off. It's tempting to want to pull them off but I don't. I have a post op visit on Wednesday and I hope Dr Jay will take the others off so I know how things are healing.

mine fell off within a week... one was a little stuck but barely after all the others came off.. so i just helped it a little.

I had them for my surgery and 2 csections as well and they never really came off. I start by trimming the loose edges as they lift and eventually they mostly came off -- maybe 2 weeks though. There was one part that was stuck in a little scab where I had some leakage and when I removed it it took the scab too and now my scar is wider and bumpy there so BE CAREFUL. If it seems attached to the wound itself, I would keep the curling up edges trimmed back and just let it dry up and fall off itself........With my csections they never came off -- I removed them.

My doctor told me if my bandages came off the sterile strips in the shower to put new bandages over them, so that is what I did everyday for 2 weeks, during my check up he took them off.

My doctor said that the longer they stayed on the better.

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