Hi... so I had surgery on the 29... and last night before I was discharged my bfriend looks at my tummy and sees this huge bruise in the right part of my stomach... it's like 5 in radius... the doctor said not to worry about it... but why I'm I having that bruise? Long long those it take to go away? And today I noticed that my other incisions have a little bit of a bruise too... =/ is it because I walk and stand up by myself?.. help =(

Very common, the muscle underneath has been through a lot of trauma. My bruises showed up a few days out, my doc gave me a anticoagulant blood thinner injection in my stomach that had a massive bruise in that area. I'm sure you had some to maybe thru IV so that you didn't get blood clots post op, and the blood thinner makes a person bruise so much easier then normal. Hope that helps

I also have bruises. I have seven holes because of the way my ribs are. I also have 2 bruises on my underwear line that were not incissions. My dr. Xhecked it in the hospital yesterday and said everything looks great. He said some people bruise more that others. I hope your feeling great!!!

I have a huge bruise... hope it goes away... thanks for the response I'm calm now =)

I too had a huge bruise...u may even notice more in the next week or so due to blood thinner they may have given you. Mine are finally starting to go away, I was sleeved 5/20

Surgery is not a delicate process folks with that said some of that bruising is probably from the blood thinner injections you were given on your tummy..

I'm black and blue even on the side of my boob.

I've had laparoscopic surgery before and remember that I was badly bruised then too. It's perfectly normal. Your body has suffered massive trauma and this is just its way of showing it. It'll soon clear up.

I got bruises from the heparin injections. No big deal.