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5 of my family members have either had the band or by-pass..all of them were either glued or stitched up..im 4 days post op and have 5 staples in one incision and 1 in the other 4...i get them out Thursday..but i wondering how many of u out there were stapled..glued or stitched..I wonder if this was just my Dr's preference no one in my family used the same Dr

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glued in belly button, and 3 other locations glued for hiatal hernia repair.

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I had hiatal hernia repair also...I thought for sure they were going to go thru my belly bottom also like when I had my gallbladder taken out but they didn't..one of my staple lines is 4 inches long that's the port

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I was glued in my belly-button, about 4-inches above, and 4 inches to the left of my belly-button. The only large incision with the higher one.

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My stomach looks like Frankenstein!!!...I did find out that since i had a C-section with my last baby that my insurance will pick up a TT...hopefully that will rake care of the large scar

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I was glue and steri strips.....My biggest scar is about 2 inches, the other 4 ones are about the size ofmy pinkie nail so that is good... right now I look a bit "interesting" but I keep putting mederma on it to hopefully help with the scars as they heal... good luck with yours! I do believe that every dr. has a preference... When I had my 2 c-sections the first was steri strips and glue, the second wanted to do staples but I asked to not have them and she did it the other way.... so every dr. is so different!

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I'm going ask Thursday why staples and why he did go thru my belly button

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glued and covered with tape.

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I had dissolvable stitches in all mine

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Mine were all glued.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using LapBandTalk

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Dissolvable stitches in all

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Sounds like I'm one of the few who is stapled

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I had 5 incisions with the largest one being just below my sternum and I was stapled. I did well with them and my scars are healing nicely!

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My stomach looks like Frankenstein!!!...I did find out that since i had a C-section with my last baby that my insurance will pick up a TT...hopefully that will rake care of the large scar

Oh nice!! I want a TT I had a c-section also. Did they say why? Would it be hard on the c-section scar for extra skin?

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