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Bkritty
on 6/7/11 8:06 am

Okay I know a lot of people are going to want to jump down my throat about tanning beds and skin cancer, but really I would just like to know from any of you that have gone before me that have actually tanned pre and/or post op how you feel that either helped or hurt your surgical scars?!?!

dropnthemlbs
on 6/7/11 8:16 am

RNY on 12/07/10

I started tanning at about 3 months post op..right now i go 4-5 times a wk.. ( i tanned pre op last year as well ).... i feel great, no pronblems with hurting or surgical scars...

Sunshine1965
on 6/7/11 8:52 am

RNY on 04/26/11

I have been going since about 3 weeks post op. It hasn't affected my scars at all :)

staces6
on 6/7/11 9:40 am

I feel it has faded my scars some

ANNI D.
on 6/7/11 10:31 am

RNY on 03/11/11

I am almost 3 months post-op and I've been tanning for about a month now. I had a laproscopic RNY, so my incisions were very small to start with, so I can only share what mine look like. I personally think they look better. Before they were kind of pink and stood out that way. Now they're a little darker than my skin, which looks better to me. I think anything looks better than white pastey skin though!! My BFF and I have a saying that applies to tanning in general..."Tan fat looks better than white fat!!" SO, I tan every chance I get!!

I only strive to be, the kind of person my dogs think I am!

Of the choices we are given, it's no choice at all....
-Patty Griffin

RachelRaye
on 6/7/11 11:03 am

RNY on 05/31/11

I'm a week out and I tanned today. I was a bit nervous...

Laura in Texas
on 6/7/11 11:10 am

RNY on 09/17/08 with

I'm almost 3 years out and couldn't find my scars if my life depended on it. I think scarring is mainly a genetics thing and tanning will have no effect either way.

Laura

Laura in Texas

53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)

RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis

brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco

"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."

gochristy1971
on 6/8/11 8:01 am - CA

RNY on 03/28/11

I don't know how it's going to affect my incisions yet...it's still too soon. However, I fell down the stairs at work 2 years ago...concrete stairs...and tore my ankle/foot up really badly. It was summer and I was at the pool all the time...I believe the tanning helped fade the scar.

Christy
Weights: Surgery 317 Current 242 GW ???

Rustys-Gal
on 6/9/11 2:10 pm - Chesapeake, VA

RNY on 05/18/11

I am 3 weeks out. I started tanning about a week ago. I was a little nervous exposing my healing scars to the intensity of the bed, so I just placed a couple of towels over my abdomen. Yeah, I know it's gonna give me interesting tan lines, but hey, I don't plan on showing my abs anyways....LOL.

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