My doctor said to leave them on till they fall off which is fine.. but i have one incision that started being a little painful to the touch.. and is pink around the edges... How soon did your bandages come off? And is this normal to have one be a little painful.. the rest fill fine.

Holly

ps. I'm 8 days post op

I take my bandages off the 2nd or 3rd day. They start coming off around day 3 for me, if I've showered every day. I'm allergic to adhesives and can usually only tolerate them for a day at most, usually I'm well into a reaction by the time I give up and take them off. If I leave them on for the whole week I will be blistery, hivey, and my skin will have sort of melted into the bandage (so it's pulled off as the bandage comes off). This time around they just used gauze pads and tape strips. Normally I get the (can't think of the name) stuff that looks like thin clear contact paper.

When I left the hospital (day after surgery - sleeve) the nurse gave me a bunch of gauze and the sheets, sissors, tweezers, etc. and told me to take them off or replace them as I wanted, that really their main purpose was to keep a staple from getting pulled... so as long as I promised not to compromise my staples, I didn't have to wear any. Big YIPEE!

Normally when you have your post-op (about a week after surgery) they'll take the bandages off and do butterfly strips. Those stay on forever. I took them off after 2 days.

One of my incisions was/is a little more sore than others. I have one almost directly above my belly button. I think it is taking longer to heal because of my shirt rubbing against it. I wasn't given bandages. They used the skin glue on my incisions. But I had an allergic reaction to the glue. Keep an eye on your incisions. If they continue ro look red, start draining and feel warmer than usual, call your dr. You may have an infection.

Thanks for all the advice.. i ended up taking them off.. because i had the glue on the stitches too.. it had leaked out some pus but it wasn't green.. i had my husband clean out my wound and put some neosporin on it.. then we put band-aids.. guess what this morning it's not so red and that pain has diminished like 90% it feels soooooooo much better.. i think my skin didn't like having that steristrip tape on it... thanks for your advice ... love feeling better!!

Holly