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Before and After Sleeve Scars

Nikki Monroe

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Nikki Monroe    71

Nikki Monroe
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Please post pics of your scar after surgery and what it looks like now. Want to know what I will be dealing with! Thanks!

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Elode    8,093

Elode
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Here are mine, sorry it's the best picture I have the one on the left is the week after surgery and the one on the right is this week. 8 months. It's pretty much faded, as you can see a couple scars is the least of my stomachs problems! :) I also had 3 c sections.

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no onions    258

no onions
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@@Elode those healed really well!

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Elode    8,093

Elode
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@@no onions Pretty good. Not that I go around showing my stomach so not an issue ;)

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anahajara    16

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I am 3wks out. Haven't used anything for scars yet.

Btw I have 2 more that I couldn't get in the shot. These are my biggest incisions.

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sleevenv    483

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post-254601-14364954121411_thumb.jpgnine days post op.

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Bluesea71    698

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12 months post-op. I have 4 scars - one of the "most visible" in this photo is actually a birth mark! I can't wait to get a Tummy Tuck to remove these signs of WLS!

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BLERDgirl    6,417

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I didn't take pictures before but they were raised, red and lumpy. I'm Black and tend to keloid. I used scarfade gel initially. I've used it on scars I had on my face from shingles and knew it worked really well for me. That flattened them and helped reduce the redness. When I ran out I was using bio-oil . This helped fade them a bit. You can still see one or two ,but most are unnoticeable.

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Nikki Monroe    71

Nikki Monroe
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Thank you all for your pictures! Gives me a lot of hope!????

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Nikki Monroe    71

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This is the single incision right above the belly button. It is almost invisible.

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Noragretz    28

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bottom pic is 10 months post op. You really can't see them. I'm happy with my surgeon for being so careful. Even through all the tiger stripes. 5# to goal!! Cw 137

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FireWife    20

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This my big incision from my lap band surgery 3 years ago. It was 3 inches across. I had two others that were less thank an inch, but I can't even find them anymore. If my sleeve scars end up looking the same 3 years from my upcoming revision, I'll be happy????

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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