I'm only 1 week post-op but am wondering when you guys starting putting Mederma or other scar reducing things on your incisions? I'm assuming I can't this soon because they're not healed yet but I want to as soon as I can so hopefully the scars won't be too noticeable when they're all healed!

I would say 6-8 weeks after your surgery. You can start with pure cocoa butter in about another week though. I used cocoa butter for two weeks before my procedure to give my skin a head start. As you lose weight, your scars are going to get smaller anyway. Some people's scars are hardly visible a year out, one of my friends got rid of her surgical scars and stretch marks in about 7 months, but she was very diligent about using mederma, cocoa and shea butter on her tummy 2 -3x a day.

My Doc told me not to put anything on the scars for 6 weeks. So I would agree with prettythick1 .

~~~Stephanie

I have been wondering the same thing! I go to my surgeon on Tues and plan on asking him that very question.