52 Yrs, Mom-2, Grandma-5... Doing It for Me! 5'4", 143 Lbs - Bakersfield, CA

Hello ladies! I just wanted to take a quick moment to update my profile and add a couple of pics. All is going well now that I am just about out of tape glue hell. I'm pretty sure that nasty glue did hinder my healing and put me a bit behind in the process. But I'm on the way and have noticed the scars are smoothing out nicely now that I'm using my doctors tape on some of the areas. My right breast still has some settling to do. Also, I have read about ladies who have trouble with certain foods causing bloating. I was a bit bloated in the pics that were taken yesterday but boy was that Greek meal delicious! Ah and there's also the tummy swelling that randomly shows up. It's difficult to relax when you are feeling normal and my tummy pays the price for being more active. I haven't been on RS as often as I'd like but I am happy to see everyone healing well and several beauties who've made it to the flat side! Happy healing, less swelling and mwah to you all!

About 10 days ago I posted about my nightmare of an experience with the glue from the tape staying on my skin. I have gotten the majority of the tape off my areolas, most of it off under my breast, and apparently none of it off my lower abdomen. I thought I had it all off my lower abdomen and my nurse placed their tape across my lower abdomen last Friday. When I took it off, the entire area was still sticky! Ugh!!!&$!;?/$&@!!!

Having the tape glue stuck to your skin causes so many problems. Any little scab is embedded with glue not allowing it to dry and flake off naturally. And clothing holds on tight to it causing me to have to slowly and carefully pry it off. And I gained a slight infection as a result of the glue being stuck under my breast. I can't prove that but the areas that are glueless are not irritated and healing nicely now. In one pic you can see some of the glue. I have to rub/roll and tweeze it off. Again I say if you purchased your own tape, put it on for a few days on a safe area just to test it. I don't wish this mess on anyone. Other than that, all is well!

Good evening beautiful ladies! Hope you all are healing well and those of you getting ready for procedures - woohoo!!! I wanted to share what recently happened with me in case any of you are buying your own tape for post op. I purchased 3M Micropore tape to cover my incisions from our local Walgreens. I was to change my tape every three days. On the third day, we carefully pulled the tape off and I did notice some tender areas or so I thought. After getting out of the shower my breasts felt strange and looked strange on the lower incisions. I actually couldn't see my lower incisions. We discovered that my breasts were stuck to the skin below my breasts. The tape glue had remained on my skin. E V E R Y W H E R E!!! I have small areas where the tape glue is not on the incisions but just outside of them. These are the list of things that I have tried to remove the glue: The tape (tried to get it to reattach to itself) Vitamin E oil Olive Oil Coconut Oil Nail Polish Remover A Magic Eraser (yes I did!) Goo Be Gone (yes, on my own skin!) Now you may think it's not that big of a deal to have a little glue on you however my bra sticks to it and my CG sticks to it. Every single inch of my incisions (plus some) sticks to my undergarments. When removing them, I have to slowly peel them off the glue. I was feeling like a million bucks but now I'm stuck to my garments which does not make for smooth movements. The only thing that truly worked was picking at it with tweezers. Dot by little dot. I got the glue off my left areola and that was all that I could do as that took well over an hour. So for now my garments stick to my incisions. Oh and the glue also comes off on the garments and won't simply wash off in the washer. If there is a way that you can test your tape somewhere on your body before leaving it on your tender incisions, I say do it! The tape that I bought looks perfectly fine so don't let that fool you. I was doing so well and this has been very discouraging. It probably rarely happens but I'd rather post here and maybe help someone prevent the problem from happening to them. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well this weekend!