hey guy,

so today I am 5 days post op, finally took of the dreaded compression stockings.....! yay so happy about that - and took off the plaster type bandages as that's what my instruction letter states to do, but I have this tape on top of the incisions not sure if I am supposed to take these off also? don't really want t mess around with them to much - I have cleaned the areas around the sutures but am scared to get to close, I also had some bleeding from the biggest one shortly after the op I guess this was caused by me moving around not long after surgery but I was advised to do sonot to worried but the blood and glue looks like it will come of with the tape!!

not sure what to do - please let me know what you may have done and time frame before you took yours off or if you did at all?

thanks you look forward to your reply

I am 6 weeks post-op. My doctor told me to leave the steri-strips on and that they would fall off by themselves. He wanted them to stay on for about 2 weeks, so he told me to take short showers as the Water will cause them to loosen. At exactly 2 weeks, the first strip fell off. Over the next week, the others fell off so that by 3 weeks they were all off.

The adhesive left glue smudges on my skin, which took another 3 weeks to finally come clean. Hope this helps.

yep, strips stay on and will eventually come off on there own.

thank you @@busylady344 and @@Colleen C new to this but I love how friendly everyone is and how helpful everyone's experiences are -

Def leave leave the steri strips on. If u pick a them too soon the wounds can open up.

I accidentally removed mine at 5 days. Nothing bad happened to me. But I did misunderstand my instructions. I have bad scaring now.