Hello everyone!

I did my gastric bypass surgery last Monday (Oct 14th) and I'm feeling great despite the gas pains and some weakness from time to time. Last Friday I noticed that the area around one (and just one) of my stiches has turned kinda yellow. It doesn't hurt at all, but I was wondering if it's normal.

My doctor told me to go to his office tomorrow and I got scared. What do you guys think?

PS: Sorry about the bad English, I'm from Brazil and I'm still learning.

It looks to me that your bruise is healing normally and therefore turning yellow.

I’m not a doctor but your healing looks fine to me.

I have and had the same exact thing. its totally normal. I still have t around some of my incisions and its been 6 weeks. My bruises heal slowly...

Looks like bruising to me. I had the same thing around 1 of my lower ones. My belly basically looks like a punching bag right now.

Did they give you a Lovenox shot right before your surgery? It would have been in your side or belly. It is a short term acting blood thinner to help keep you from getting blood clots in your legs after surgery. Works well but the down side is you can get awful skin bruising where your punctures and sutures are. That's what your picture looks like--healing bruises.

Boa Sorte e ben vinda!

Thank you guys. You were all right. My doctor said that this is completely normal. Nothing wrong here.