Girls please help!! I'm freaking out does my incision look ok/normal???? Started by: Eevie

Not sure that pic shows it well, but it’s defo darker than the other areas. Xx

Looks fine Eevie, they look great for 12 days post op, the dissolvable stitches can take ages to come away they will be disolved inside but go very dry on the outside and prickly they just fall off in little bits as time goes by, im 16 days post op your healing much better than me so try not to worry xxx

Honestly i had a c section nearly 4 years ago my incision was very small and neat until about the 7 day marker it had lumps and bumps everywhere it was just the stiches drying up and pockets of swelling and fluid etc ….behind the stitches i thought i was going to have a really unsightly scar from it but you literaly can’t see it whatsoever now, my stitches from that were awful after a couple of weeks they were still there and spiking in me when i sat down, my friend is a midwife and she removed them for me in the end but she did wait util she knew they were fully knitted inside, i wouldn’t reccomend removing them yourself yet you can give them a stern wipe to take dry excess off but don’t actualy pick at them, give them a few more days and im sure you will see changes in the skin around the incisions xxx

Im sure it will all be fine wishing you a speedy recovery Eevie xxx

Great news, i actualy tried to find an image of my section scar to show you just to put your mind at rest but it’s on an old sim somewhere, was gonna include a pic of how it is now so you could see the difference, my friend was here lastnight and i was telling her about your incision worries and she said she can remember coming round here when my scar had started to lump up before she took the stitches out and i had burst into tears and said
‘This incision looks like its been done with a tin opener’
I can’t even remember that but i must have been really convinced at the time it would stay that way 🙂
Also she had an op on her neck and had a lump each end of the stitches that was only 2 year ago and you can’t see that at all now either so keep your spirits up xxx

I’m panicking over my incisions too! Seriously concerned it doesn’t look normal for 4 Weeks PO?? I’m POD32… I even started bleeding on one side :((( these were all taken today..

Try again

I know I’ve emailed my nurse twice in the last couple days and she hasn’t gotten back to me so I’m not sure if she’s maybe off and I should text my PC? Just look so much worse than other girls I’ve seen I probably shouldn’t compare but i can’t help it! I didn’t expect to be left with two very dark scars is all 🙁

Thank you Hun really appreciate it xx

@hannah299 Hi sweetie, I emailed my nusre too (I had two email addresses) and still had no reply since Sunday, so text my PC today and one of the nurses called me straight away and said she’s only just returned to work, so we may have the same nurse?
Maybe just text your PC and hopefully someone will call you straight back. Xx