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How many incisions did your surgeon make?

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I was wondering if there is anyone else out there that only has 2 incisions sites like myself? One in the belly button, one near my left rib cage that's VERY tiny. Did you have have any complcations or reactions to the glue in your belly button?

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4 and a drain site.

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!

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.

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

I had 5 no belly button and No DRAIN!!

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.

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

A few inverted sutures

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