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I have one belly button incision, no glue

Wow! ONE? And, no glue? How did the doc suture the incision?

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4 and a drain site.

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I have 5 and only 2 are noticiable at 10 weeks out. I expect they'll heal, I mean my c-section scars are pretty much invisible and they took 2 big full term babies out of there.

1 incision is amazing...never heard of that.

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Wow, some many different answers! Maybe eventually, only one incision site for everyone...??? :D

Oh, and Vitamin E oil from Walmart works great on ANY scar with loyal use! Bio oil will work too!

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Two in the belly button, one near my left rib cage that's VERY tiny - don't know about the glue. Eleven months out and all of them look like they could be mosquito bites and have faded quite a bit.

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I had 4 plus one drain site that is more noticiable than the rest. I had none in my belly button. I am almost 5 months out and all of the scars are fading nicely. I had my gall bladder taken out so now I have 4 more incisions from that. I had a different surgeon and he didn't use any of my previous incisions. 6 months ago I had no scars on my belly, now I have 9. Buckshot sounds like as good a story to me as any! LOL! :D

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Five incisions including the drain site. None of the incisions were in the bellybutton. They range in size from less than half an inch to about an inch and a half. I had internal dissolvable sutures and glue on the outside. All incision sites are just little pink lines now and are fading nicely.

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Wow! ONE? And' date=' no glue? How did the doc suture the incision?[/quote']

A few inverted sutures

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