I am day 4 from surgery and have an enormous, hard, hot, red swatch across the left side of my stomach. It is ITCHY and has little tiny blisters on it. The skin is quite swollen -- it reminds me of when I had a reaction to a vaccine -- like a shield of hard, red swollen tissue. Now it is spreading from just around the site where the liquid came out (brain not working - can't remember the name) to the other incisions.

I have a call to a derm and have put cortisone and vitamin D on it but it still looks like a lobster and bothers me!!!

I'm sure the dermatologist will Rx something. You can try ice packs to reduce the pain and itch and also take over the counter benadryl to help the histamine reaction.

She didn't call back...I will take some Benedryl though. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have the itches too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Driving me nuts

you might want to try some benadryl cream on the site itself.