Incision dent

[violgarodriguez 3]

Im one day post op (2/20/2018) And I noticed my largest incision where my stomach was pulled out of was very painful. After i took a look at it, I noticed it was dented in, is this normal!? And how long were your incisions no longer painful?

[jess9395 5,450]

Im one day post op (2/20/2018) And I noticed my largest incision where my stomach was pulled out of was very painful. After i took a look at it, I noticed it was dented in, is this normal!? And how long were your incisions no longer painful?

Yup pretty normal while it’s healing. Probably as much that the area around it is swollen as it is a “dent.” Everyone is different. Mine hurt maybe a couple of days and then were tender for most of a week then fine.

[sleevedin2018 41]

Im one day post op (2/20/2018) And I noticed my largest incision where my stomach was pulled out of was very painful. After i took a look at it, I noticed it was dented in, is this normal!? And how long were your incisions no longer painful?

I have a dent in my smallest incision between my breast bone - surgeon said it was from the tool they use to move the liver out of the way. He said it’ll eventually go away. Maybe check with your surgeon.

[abefroman329 704]

I had a dent, yes. I kinda still do. The incisions didn't hurt at all after a couple of weeks. The longest incision will hurt the longest.

[suzysunshine123 11]

I’m one month post op and I still have the dent in the same spot... The largest incision where the stomach was pulled out. I wondered if that was normal too. That was the one that was painful too and the pain went away but the dent is still there. All the other scars are flat and look great.

[chinadoll707 4]

I had the dent as well it went away a few weeks after surgery. I also had a sharp pain there that lasted over a month

[walleyecrazy 120]

I had the same thing. Mine was so bad that I was actually calling it my second belly button. I am about 4.5 months post surgery now and mine has returned to normal with no more indent.

[Stacy160 201]

8 years out, I still have my dent. The scar tissue that forms from the tunnel the surgical instruments to through causes that...gravity makes it more obvious when it pulls the tissue around it downward. If you end up with skin removal afterwards, that adhesion will be removed and you'll be smooth as glass.

[Gagsy 62]

I can't tell you how much my wounds worried me. One of them looked like a bit of skin was made as a flap to cover up the hole. It was gross the first few days in the hospital, then thankfully it got better but it took ages. Didn't help that it got infected slightly as well. There wasn't pain, it was more just annoying.

I'm 2 months out of surgery and only now am I happy with the healing. I will scar but so what? The fact that the lumpy wound is gone and the one between my boobs which was open for ages because of its position and how I move a lot in my sleep. It really did feel like I would always have a gaping hole between my boobs and a dent on my stomach wound.

They will heal! Please be assured.

[dillydog 73]

I have a dent and Im going on 4 months , gotten way better but i think its here to stay, all the other spots are gone.

[kakatlady612 1,053]

Think of it as a dimple, just in a strange location. Maybe you could put a small,precious,jewel there later? Just a suggestion.

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[Krista27 342]

I had surgery on 2/9 and I had a dent. It worried me when I first saw it. But it has gone away already.

[2nd_chance 6]

I asked the surgeon at the 1 week post op and he said it is stitched to something with a dissolvable stitch and will eventually go away.

[CaroleS 6]

Thank goodness! I am 2 1/2 weeks out VGS and have a second belly button I am concerned about. I sure hope mine flattens out.

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