I was sleeved on Jan 30th and just last night I noticed a horribly itchy rash on my inner thighs and neck, no where near my incisions or the surgical tape.

Is this a common thing - did it happen do any of you? How did you treat it?

Everything else is going so swimmingly, but this rash business is completely bizarre.

I plan on taking a half dose of benedryl before I go to sleep tonight and slathering on some hydrocortisone cream, but if anyone else has better ideas, please share!

I had it...turns out it was a reaction to the blood thinner ( Lovenox) they gave in the hospital... took a couple of weeks for mine to go away.... I actually went to my allergist and he said it was too soon aftyer surgery to take prednisone but OK'd liquid benadryl

Fascinating, I never even considered it to be a drug reaction. I did have Lovanox injected into my belly. Yikes on it taking a few weeks to go away though.

I've been itchy too but have been keeping lotion on. I've also got a rash around the bandaids, guess from the adhesive but have put some cream on that and try to keep them exposed to the air as much as possible.