Scar Stages Share yours!

[Eficka 0]

Funny Duddies...its not a trick it really looks like it:-)

[CanadaSunshine 0]

These are fantastic guys...please keep them coming!

(and please let us know if you used any scar care products or not)

:biggrin1: I can't wait to show you all my shame! (a.k.a. belly)

[Nana~ 4]

Thought I'd take a new photo. It's been almost 2 years now but My scars still swell during my "TOM" like in this photo otherwise they lay pretty flat.

[Lucky2behome 0]

This is tooo funny…<o:p></o:p>

I LOVE my skin care products! (Dermalogica!) I really think using those products on my sutures have helped them heel very quickly and comfortably! While inspecting them, I thought about how I have always loved doing dot to dots! A lot of people talk about their scars being like a dot to dot! So I drew the scars from my gall bladder surgery in November and my new (3 week old) lap band scars on a piece of paper I tried two different directions and came up with this! Cool, huh?!?

I don't know how to get my picture in an http:// format so have added it as an attachment?!?

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[July5forMe 0]

I would just like to encourage people to post more pictures of their scars at any stage because it does help us newbies with all the unknown we face. I will be posting my scars proudly as soon as i get home after my surgery.

[housecatgirl 0]

Hi everyone, These are my scars 6 days post op. I will try to post again in a couple of weeks to show the healing process.

[Telly 4]

Awesome Housecatgirl, you got the skin tape and glue. That's going to heal up nicely. Smart doctor.

[housecatgirl 0]

We'll see:rolleyes I hope so anyway.:phanvan I'll post more soon.

[July5forMe 0]

okay now to post my scars. :biggrin1:

this pictures are my scars 1 day post op. so they are really fresh.

i hope this is helps someone with what to expect.

[housecatgirl 0]

You got pain meds to your scar?? I wish I would have had that!

[July5forMe 0]

yeah housecatgirl. it stayed in for about 3 days then i took it out. I think it helped alot now that it has completely worn off.

The doctors called it a numb ball.

[housecatgirl 0]

Not fair!! I could've totally used that!

[ousooner 1]

I have been meaning to post this for a while. I am 2 months out now, but here I am couple of days post op. I am glad my doctor used skin glue and liquid bangage of some sort. They are healing nicely.

[Phone 0]

Wow...thanks for sharing your pics...My surgery is tommorow and you have eased my mind BIGTIME. I'm so happy to see everyone is so happy with thier band. I am so sick of obsessing about food and my diet has to be small because I have proctitis. If I eat too much...I create inflammation. Does anyone else have problems with colitits or any other bowel disease?

[Wheetsin 714]

I don't have update pics, but a verbal update. In my scar pics, especially the band/port scar, there's a small amunt of keloiding. Not out of control, but definitely not flat like the others. Since taking those pics, the left third of the keloid went down. A few weeks later I looked down one day and noticed that the right third of the keloid had gone down too. Now it's weird - I have a "normal" scar, with just the middle third of it raised up. My fingers are crossed that this, too, goes down some day.