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I'm about 2-3 years post from my lbl and still have an itchy scar! My surgeon

told me that there was lots and lots of nerves that were cut and that the

itching was the nerves regenerating and reattaching again. He said it could

take up to a year for that to happen.

I asked my WLS doc why it still itches now and he said that now it's just the

nerves misfiring.

Whatever was going to reattach would have by now. Cocoa butter (scargo- my

fave) vit E oil, emu oil and whatever else you put on your scar seems to me

(IMHO) to help simply because you are massaging your scar.

But that's what I think. Some days I'm good and others days I'm better. Then

there's the days we don't speak of in our house :o)

Sue

Open RNY 10/26/98

From 500 lbs to 152

Dr Barry L Fisher

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New Belly Flakiness

I have been meaning to ask about this: since my Belt Lip in Sept my new

belly has been very itchy (which I assume has something to do with nerve

regeneration too?) and it has gotten flakey and dry. So lately I've been

schmearing

some cocoa butter on it and that seems to help. Have others experienced this

new belly skin flakiness too?

Lucille

In a message dated 12/1/2003 9:39:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

> Dr. Egrari has worked with

> many WLS post-ops and is the preeminent bariatric reconstructive surgeon

> in the Seattle area. He is very concerned about the quality of our skin,

> and says we need to be extra careful with it for the rest of our lives,

> since it's already been stressed and damaged by being stretched so much

> when we were big, and since many of us have enough fat malabsorption to

> have problems adequately protecting our skin from the inside.

>

> Z

>

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My TT was on 10/27/03 so I don't think I am as far out as you are.

Mine is still just mostly tingly. No real skin problems or issues to

talk about.

> I have been meaning to ask about this: since my Belt Lip in Sept

my new

> belly has been very itchy (which I assume has something to do with

nerve

> regeneration too?) and it has gotten flakey and dry. So lately

I've been schmearing

> some cocoa butter on it and that seems to help. Have others

experienced this

> new belly skin flakiness too?

>

> Lucille

>

>

>

> In a message dated 12/1/2003 9:39:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> Graduate-OSSG writes:

>

>

> > Dr. Egrari has worked with

> > many WLS post-ops and is the preeminent bariatric reconstructive

surgeon

> > in the Seattle area. He is very concerned about the quality of

our skin,

> > and says we need to be extra careful with it for the rest of our

lives,

> > since it's already been stressed and damaged by being stretched

so much

> > when we were big, and since many of us have enough fat

malabsorption to

> > have problems adequately protecting our skin from the inside.

> >

> > Z

> >

>

>

>

>

>

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