Hello, first time posting. My friend told me about this site. About how long until the microscopic incisions heal for the strips to come off? They are all dry and ones kind of...wet. Im also a little concerned about putting water directly on the cuts in the shower. should i be?

I got told I could remove mine 11 days after surgery

When is your follow up?

I was told to remove them if they became wet. I had one that got wet less than a week post-op. I removed it and it healed fine.

You can get them wet in the shower, but they can't be submerged in water like in a bath.

Edited February 8, 20197 yr by anonbaribabe

cool, my follow up is on Wednesday. i haven't even attempted a bath yet.

Hello, first time posting. My friend told me about this site. About how long until the microscopic incisions heal for the strips to come off? They are all dry and ones kind of...wet. Im also a little concerned about putting Water directly on the cuts in the shower. should i be?

I didn't have any strips. My incisions were sealed with a liquid called dermabond. It was almost like liquid bandages and as the wounds healed, it pushed the dermabond out on it's own.

Mine were covered with criss-crossed hypoallergic strips like stereo-strips. Like one of the other posters, I was told it was okay to get them wet in the shower, just wash around them and pat them dry, the one in my navel,dropped off first, it was pretty caked with blood as was the "money" slit, Bypassers on the right , sleevers on the left, it took the longest to heal, was a little tender from it maybe a month, Dr Needleman. removed the rest at 2 weeks, the reason you're not permitted a tub bath or swimming is those contain chemicals and/ or germs, whereas. a shower is clean water just trickling over. I turned the pressure down on my shower because high pressure needles of water made them sting and hurt. At 5 months mine have faded into the surrounding stretch mark scenery, sure a surgeon or doctor could find them because they know where they should be, average layperson couldn', I just looked at my tubby tummy, only one still distictive is mine up between my slightly saggy "girls" it's visible only because my skin up there isn't stretch- marked but smooth. And FYI that is where the liver retractor went in, since I had been so successful with my liver- shrinking diet, he did not have to use the industrial- sized retractors and didn't bruise anything, it is tiny tiny, always has been, maybe 1/2 the size of the rest, and they weren't big to start with. My surgeon did a pretty pretty job, gosh I can only wish all my surgeons sutured as skillfully. He could have been a plastic surgeon. My exterior turned out as pretty as a 70+ body can be, it's. my innards where my Big Bad Problem is. I am very very allergic to Dermabond as I am most adhesive bandaging. Liked that about Dr N , he used what would be best for me, not what he was taught or comfortable using. Case in point, I had to have some breast biopsies, multiple so they were going to give me General anesthesia. I told the surgeon, reminded the nurses even stuck a post-a-note on one boob, what do I wake up with , Elastoplast, Whole no-one bright red blisters,part broken and weeping, itch like Hades, and when they finally removed the Elastoplast, I lost the entire top layer of skin, it had just melted away, my subcutaneous layer showing, had to go to wound management, where they take care of the trophic ulcers and burns, and when it healed at least my body made new skin so I didn't have to be grafted, but it still is a little shiny. Late Husband offered to kiss it and make it better, told him to keep those lips on his can of Pepsi and far away from me!???