Did anyone bruise badly after procedure? My surgery was on 9/12 and my poor gut looks like I was kicked by Bigfoot.
HW 228
CW 207
GW 125

Did you receive blood thinner shots? Not uncommon with drugs like heparin and lovenox.

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It's probably the blood thinner they give you to prevent blood clots. I had bruises like that around each injection site, for weeks!

Yup, my lovenox site looked like that!

Was that the bypass or the sleeve??

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Crazy ? I didn't have any bruises. Hope it's not as painful as it looks.

I had some bruising but nothing like your photo. I didn't find the incision site or bruising to be painful. The itching got extreme but not pain. For me it was more pain/discomfort when I sat or stood...like a major ab workout.

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Like others mentioned, probably from blood thinners (assuming they gave you some). I had a massive arm bruise and asked the nurse about it and she said they gave me my first round of blood thinners while I was still under, so you might not have even realized that's what happened! Hopefully the bruising goes down soon!

I had bypass. Yes. I received three separate shots in my abdomen of lovenox! Two on this side and then one on my right side. The one on my right did not do what the left has done.
And yes travelergirl, I'm so dang uncomfortable.
The site is smaller and the bruising is beginning to turn its many shades of glory!


HW 228
CW 217
GW 125

I will say that I did have spasms within 24 hours of surgery. Oh boy was that horrible! Most of my left side was affected. I thought the bruising came from those!


HW 228
CW 217
GW 125

I had some bruising, but not like that, WOW, God bless you! At my one week follow up, my Dr. said I was an oozer when I asked him. He said I bleed easily. I reacted with redness around the 2 main incisions from the steri strips & Dr. removed all of them. I'm a bit concerned about the discoloration by those sites now, but improving each day. My RNY was 9/5. I know your bruising will take awhile to resolve, it looks like my abdomen from the seat belt when I was in a car accident! Has your Dr. seen it?

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I bruise easily and if I remember correctly, I looked like that too. I'd just mention it at your next appointment.


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Yep, me too, but I also had Heparin shots in the hospital. every one of those sites is black with bruising. I'm 4 days post op.

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