Hi everyone. I am scheduled to be banded on Jan. 11th and I'm just curious how your surgeon closed your incisions. Did s/he glue, staple, or stitch?

Hi, I was glued. My incisions looked great. I like the glue because I don't have to worry about it coming off when it gets wet or earlier than it's suppose to.

Jenn

I Was Glued And They All Blew Open On Me, I Had To Go To My Local Er And They Had To Stich Them All, The Only Horrid Scar Is From Thr Port Incision The Others Werent Big Enough. The Doc In The Er Was Horrified That They Dont Staple Them As The Stomach Skin Is Very Tough And Glue Is Not Sturdy Enough. So The Only Bad Scarring I Have Is The One Site, But Honestly I Would Rather Be Thin And Healthy With A Scar Then Big And Unhealthy With No Scars, Besides Isnt That What They Make Tattoo's For ???? Hahahahhahah

I had tape (steristrips). I assume there was glue under the steristrips.

Glue and dissolve stitches. The stitches were not visible.

HI I had inteernal stiches the disolving kind, glue and steri strips and I healed just great it took about 10 days for the strips to fall off and then everthing looked good.

Good luck with you sugery!!!

Internal Dissolving strips. Nothing to be taken out or pull on.

glue - but there was no problem. All incisions stayed together fine.

I had internal stitches and my incisions were glued and he covered them with steri strips. Once the steri strips came off, my incisions were closed. My incisions look pretty good for being 3 weeks out.

Caramel:ranger:

I had steri strips on the 4 little one and I think it was 5 or 6 staples in my big for 1 wk, didn't hurt at all when they came out. no problems they still itch some though

glue and dissolvable stitches

glue and dissolvable stitches it took about 2 weeks for the tape to fall off :faint:

Glue for me which my doc affectionately referred to as Mexican Glue. Glad they have a sense of humor about the whole thing.

I had zero problems with the glue. Came off in the shower while cleaning myself about 2.5 weeks out. The scars look awesome and with a little Vitamin e oil and/or mederma should fade soon enough.

I was stapled, they came out yesterday, OUCH

of course I am a bit of a baby about stuff like this.

They feel much better today. The port incision had 10 staples. The others each had 3. The scars look purple now but feel alot better.

Hi everyone. I am scheduled to be banded on Jan. 11th and I'm just curious how your surgeon closed your incisions. Did s/he glue, staple, or stitch?

Most surgeons use absorbable (dissolving) stitches under the skin and then apply steri-strips (white tape) to reinforce.

Sometimes the skin will "spit" out the dissolving sutures and it will feel like fishing line is sticking out of your skin. If this happens you can either wait for it to dissolve or have your surgeon trim it off in the office.

I am glued and steri stripped here.