compression garments harmful?

That sucks.  I hope she feels better soon.

I was told that skin necrosis can be caused by a binder that is too tight (cutting off circulation, etc) OR getting the skin pulled "too tight". 

I told my surgeon that I wanted the skin pulled as tight as he possibly could.  He warned that pulling the skin excessively tight could lead to skin necrosis.  So I told him to just pull it as tight as he could without putting me at risk for that. 

Definately scary - but sounds totally avoidable in most cir****tances!