When I had my strapping off it was one week po with the nurse and she used a little wipe to help loosen it as she took it off, I don’t remember it hurting and she held the skin tight to help. Afterwards I was still covered in sticky stuff, a little red and spotty too but I took the sticky stuff off with a warm, wet flannel and some bio oil as it was all I could find. It worked though 🙂 I also had to cut some of mine off as it was annoying me by flapping about at the side, but the nurse said that was fine xxx