Hey all,

First post on this side of town, having been banded this Monday (May 6) have lost 9.5 lbs and have been walking around when I can and trying to relearn the technique of drinking fluids (really how fast I let a sip go down).

I noticed a few minutes ago as I was being helped out of bed that my belly area, where the incisions obviously are, is a weird orange color and got worried. I can see difference more because the imprints from the monitors in surgery are not orange. This normal?

I hope you have called your doctor. No sense in being worried unless you need to.

That's from the special soap they use before they start surgery. Mine was blue. It's tinted so they know where they have scrubbed and where they still need to scrub. It will wash away. No worries!

is it the soap they used?

One of my twin boy's belly was blue yesterday and other's was red...

.. They got into markers while my wife was on the phone

It's the chlorohexidine scrub they used to clean you before cutting. It's usually tinted blue or orange. I'm an ICU nurse, and we use the same stuff for alot of procedures. Take a shower, it'll wash off.

Thanks all! Asked a nurse who had called to check in with me and she believes it is that as well. Kind of awkward since they waxed my belly and the coloring looks like a spray tan but kept my chest hair, haha.