Hello everyone:

I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. I had my lap band surgery on January 17th and my port site is still very tender and sore which I expected. I took off my guaze bandage to change it where the port site it and near the incision is two small painful blister like welts. I am worried I have some sort of infection. Did this ever happen to anyone? I have been keeping the port site covered since surgery because any rubbing or bumping of the site hurts so I keep putting guaze and the tape they give you on it. I hope it is just some kind of skin irritation that will resolve on it's own but I'm worried. Anyone experience anything like this?

Thanks for any help.

Jeni in PA:redface:

Hi. I was banded on 1/9/08 and when i removed my dressing for the first time, I noticed I had developed a line of blisters at the top of my dressing. This is about 2 1/2 inches above my port incision. I thought that maybe I was having an allergic reaction to the tape. The blisters are now gone, but I still have a line across my abd where they were. At my two week post op, my doctor looked at it, and agreed that it could have been an allergy. If it dosen't start to get better, you should call your doctor.

Hi I developed a rash that hurt. I had some sort of reaction to the steri strips they used. I put cream on the rash and it eventually healed.

My guess would be the tape or bandaid you had on it made your skin irritated. I had some irritation; my husband put Neosporin on it. It's good now.