Itching!!

Jordien · September 28, 2010

Ah!! A week plus a day post-op, and my incisions/steri-strips are itching! It's better than pain, yes.. but....... ahhh! Driving me nuts! Anyone else?

thegeek · October 1, 2010

Ah!! A week plus a day post-op, and my incisions/steri-strips are itching! It's better than pain, yes.. but....... ahhh! Driving me nuts! Anyone else? :thumbup:

I totally feel your pain! My first week or two I itched quite a bit as well. It helped to itch between the incision sites - just kept away from touching the sites themselves. It definitely helped.

GeorgieGirl1957 · October 1, 2010

OMG! I am 7 weeks out and I still itch occasionally. It was fierce earlier, but better now. I put silvadene cream on the incisions. That helped the pulling/itching feeling.

chilo1 · October 1, 2010

Apparently when wounds in general are healing they itch, mine did itch like mad,i guess that only means they're healing properly!

Jordien · October 1, 2010

yeah! I try to just scratch around it. I'm too scared to remove any steristrip or scratch right on the incision yikes. Around my one big incision, I bruised horribly, I mean so dark purple its almost black. My nurse told me to break open a Vitamin E gelpill and rub it on there. I have heard of that before. I went ahead and got some and am trying it. My stomach has looked like a warzone with all the bruises! I was on 10 days post-op lovenox shots in the belly, so I have little (and some big) bruises all over my lower belly "roll" lol. Plus my incisions, plus the bruising around those. Oh yeah and a big hole where the drain was. Warzone.. I'm telling ya. Did you guys all take pics of your bellies as you were healing? I've been taking pics, though I don't know if I'll ever show anyone. lol...

StaySea · October 1, 2010

I got 2 levels of itching going on over here. Both incision sites itch but I also discovered I seem to have some skin allergy to the medical tape the hospital used to AROUND the incision sites is itchy with a slight rash from the tape. They even switched me to the kind of tape for people allergic to the other kind but then before I left they put these Water proof band aids over them so I could shower and those have caused a little itchy rash where the adhesive was stuck to me. ARGH! Haha. They game me this ointment for the scars tho when I put it on it stings a bit....not right away but a little later on. Weird. Is that normal? Haha!

Jordien · October 1, 2010

oh yeah I had some redness and rash type thing from certain tape. I bought something called comfort tape.. I think that's it... just in the aisle at the grocery store, and it's like a mesh fabric tape. Much better for me. I'm down to just a small bandage over the hole where my drain was. (eek!) but yeah I couldn't stand that other tape. They gave me nylon and plastic. The plastic worked but gave me irritation. The nylon didn't bother me, but didn't work! lol...

GeorgieGirl1957 · October 1, 2010

Yeah, I have to use the mesh fabric tape, too. Even the adhesive on a bandaid makes me rashy, with itchy weeping sores. Yep, the incisional itching is from the healing. But even knowing why doesn't make it itch less. Vit E also works, so does aloe, and lanolin. As long as you're not allergic to it. I happened to have silvadene cream on hand and my incision was a little angry looking, so I used it.

My belly looked like a war zone too...blood thinner's injection sites and 5 incisions, and all the sores from the adhesives. No! I didn't take any photos. It was gross! Every now and then my granddaughter wanted to see my owies though. She was fascinated by them so I showed her the progress. I was so happy when the last one finally closed up so I could go swimming.