Hello everyone. I am 11 days post op. I had my gastric sleeve done November 13. All seems well except a still a bit of discomfort swallowing and I have a moderate pain in one of my incisions and its noticeably swollen. Not hot no draining or smell. Just wondering if this is normal. I got my surgery done out of the country so I don’t really have a follow up doctor at this point. But I’m wonderinf if I need to go have this checked out ? I believe this is the incision that was used to take the stomach out because it’s the biggest one. Thank you for any help and advice.

Might be nothing more than extra stabilizing stitching there. If it was your stomach removing incision, it would be your deepest weakest point, they may have double stitched so you wouldn't herniate internallym If so , they usually pop free once you're healed enough. You're still less than 2 weeks out, give it say a month, oh keep an eye?on it but 8 to 5, you'll be COOL.

im 5 days post and same thing scar left side above belly button.Mine hurts only when i stand up but this morning it seemed a little better.My instructions say just look fot any redness,drainage,foul smell,fever.But I saw somewhere that the left incision is where they take your stomach out.

Pretty Sure you are Correct?

Just be careful! With this surgery I noticed everybody improves dramatically day after day, so if it gets worse I would certainly see a doctor. You would want to make sure its not infected or anything.

19 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

Might be nothing more than extra stabilizing stitching there. If it was your stomach removing incision, it would be your deepest weakest point, they may have double stitched so you wouldn't herniate internallym If so , they usually pop free once you're healed enough. You're still less than 2 weeks out, give it say a month, oh keep an eye?on it but 8 to 5, you'll be COOL.

Thank you for the info. I got locked out my page somehow lol but I am definitely keeping an eye on it ?

17 hours ago, Jimmy Keller said:

im 5 days post and same thing scar left side above belly button.Mine hurts only when i stand up but this morning it seemed a little better.My instructions say just look fot any redness,drainage,foul smell,fever.But I saw somewhere that the left incision is where they take your stomach out.

Yes that’s exaclty what mine says. Hope you feel better soon too ?