Warning to moisturise!!

Just been for my 3 week check up with my PS and had a pretty nasty experience. He took at look and the first thing he said was "you have not been moisturising your scars nearly enough" - and the scars were becoming hard. I have a shower each morning and pat moisturiser onto each scar before dressing. I have intensive johnsons moisturiser as he advised against bio oil (after I spent £40 on two bottles, damn it!!) which I use once a day. Apparently this isn't enough - I should be moisturising and massaging at least 3 times per day. Not quite sure how I'm gonna do it at work without my boss noticing me nipping off for a solo boob massage each day...! Anyways, it turns out that the skin glue hadn't come off due to lack of moisture so I had to endure a painful session of him tweezering the glue from the scars, picking each bit off slowly which almost made me pass out, what a wimp! They feel pretty sore now but have Showered and slapped on 2 layers of moisturiser to try and get the scars nice and soft.

I thought id share this so that nobody else has to go through incision tweezering- ouch!

hiya hun i have never been told to moisturise but things change its a bit like having a baby every year they change the guidelines lol. xx

Do you think it was because you had glue that you have to moisturise? I was told not to put anything on my scars until 6 weeks. Everyone seems to get different info lol

Yikes! You poor thing! That sounds awful! Thanks for the heads up, don't fancy tweezers near my scars after eeek! Hope you're feeling ok now!

Poor you ! I was also told not to put anything on my scars for 6 weeks perhaps you were advised differently because of the glue I'm sure I don't have that mine are healing really well but sometimes itch like mad

Feeling ok thanks Flowergirl, I'm a big wimp so I tend to feel queasy at anything boob-related right now. Poor hubby hasn't had a good feel yet as I'm too worried about them being sore, etc!

But yes, it's defintely because I have skin glue and doesn't apply to 'stitched' ladies, as there's no hard glue covering your incisions. Xx

how about putting a thick layer of e45 onto a large plaster and leaving overnight on the scars this will encourage the moisturiser to penetrate deeply
mel x

That's a great idea, as my bra seems to soak up most of it - I have a set of well moisturised bras but dry boobies!

i do it on burns too stops them blistering,and i constantly burn myself at work on the ovens lol
mel x