So, I'm almost 5 weeks out from my banding, and everything has been really good, until yesterday. I went to my support group last night, returned home at about 8:30 pm. Went to take my shirt off, reached down and felt something wet. Looked and saw that I had blood all over my stomach under one of my incisions. The one incision on my far left under my breasts was dark purple and looked like it had a blister. So I immediately panicked, went to the urgent care, and found that I have a "stitch/suture abscess". So now I'm on antibiotics for 10 days. I was so mad. I was having a bad day yesterday as it was, and this was just the icing on the cake. (Sorry I mentioned cake, lol). It's just so weird because until this point, my sutures had been healing fine. The doctor said she thought it was irritated by my bra which makes sense. I just want to focus on getting healthy and this was just a total distraction.

Anyone else having problems with their incisions?

Thanks for letting me vent everyone! I try to talk to my family/boyfriend/friends about it but feel they can't really understand what I'm dealing with. So thanks again for listening!:smile2:

You're probably wearing an underwire bra. You should switch to a sports bra. The fabric is softer and there's no wire. I wore them instead of my regular bras for about 8 weeks. Not as much support but better for my incision.

Thanks for the reply. I'm actually not wearing an underwire. I'm wearing a soft cup bra. I always do wear an underwire normally, but since surgery I've only worn an underwire once. I just have huge boobs and they aren't the perkiest ones going so it rubs up against my incision sometimes when I sit. But I have to keep it covered now for another week so hopefully it won't get anymore irritated.

Mine are still kind of scabbed, and I have some of the internal stitches popping out so when I fold my arms below my boobs, I feel it poking through my shirt. My BIGGEST prob. has been wearing certain bras. My port is right under my right boob like right besides the sternum, so If I slouch or wear the wrong bra I am in AGONY for the whole day. I hope you feel better soon.

I can relate. all of my incisions were healing fine until the other day. After wearing a bra all day I went to take a shower and realized that the incision in the middle under my breast was sore. I looked at it it looked irritated and mybe small puss bubble. so the last couple days in the morning I shower put on zinc oxcide and a bandade over it to protect it and at night let it have air. and now it looks fine again and back to healing!!!

Ugh, just got a call from the ER doc that saw me the other day, turns out I have 2 strains of staph infection. Great. So I'm still on antibiotics. Seeing my surgeon Monday for the first fill and he will take a look at my incisions again then. They seem to be healing fine, knock wood. But it just stinks to go through this! Sorry.....frustrated!

I had a problem with my large incision it keep getting yuckie at the end because i had a stitch sticking out of skin so it couldn't heal. it final desolved enough i could put it out and now it is scaped and healing well.