Question:
Severe itching after lipo.......

Ok so my skin is so very dry from my ps and lipo (the bruised areas are so tender as well) So I bought Gold Bond Ultimate lotion, hypoallergenic for severe dry skin. Well it got rid of the flaky peely skin but it makes me itch like a mad woman! Hypoallergenic my butt ( only itch where the lotion was) Well I read thru the ingrediants and lo and behold there is dimethicone in it, about 1 year ago I figured out I was allergic to it when my lips started bleeding and swelling with chapstick and thru trial and error that was the ingrediant that all the things I tried that ended up bothering me contained. Once I found a product without it my lips healed almost over night. I checked and most of my lotions have this in them! Any ideas what I can use to soothe my skin? Too large of an area (entire back, butt, hips and abdomen) to use hydrocortisone safely. I see myself standing in Walmart tonight reading every lotion bottle. Have to get more Benadryl to ease the reaction too. I wonder if maybe the itch is a reaction to the healing from lipo or really from the lotion? (PS was 2 weeks ago and still really swollen) Wendy    — Wendy H. (posted on November 17, 2004)

November 17, 2004
Palmer's Cocoa Butter lotion or cream is great!
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November 17, 2004
Wendy I feel your pain as I am 1 week PO from a medial thigh lift and some significant redo of my upper torso lift and the itchies have set in. This is the third major PS I have had this year and the itching will drive you NUTS!!! I had 4 liters of fat lipo'd out of my upper legs back in June, in preparation for this skin removal, and I thought I would die from the itching. Like you said, the problem is that the swelling and black and blue hurts a lot and then having to scratch it makes it unbearable at times. All I can tell you is that in time it does pass. I have used a cool soothing lotion of any kind but it's very temporary relief. Even try some cool washcloths to try and calm the area, just make sure any incisions are dry when you are finished. In your case you may have an allergic reaction on top of it. I'm so sorry! <p>The skin on my torso is pulled very tight again and the stretched out stretch marks itch like unbeleiveable. I had some lipo done on my back between the butt crack and waist, in a band about 5 inches wide and that is very tender right now, so scratching is out of the question. <p>The swelling from lipo seems to last a lot longer than swelling from cutting. At least that is my experience. I have at most 15% of the swelling with this leg skin removal surgery than I had with the leg lipo. I woke up from the leg lipo and right above the knee the area was the size of a basketball and hurt like heck. The swelling did start to subside at about 2 weeks and by 3 weeks I could fit back into some of my looser pants. At 8 weeks they still had some minor swelling in them but not so most would have noticed, just me. It will take a good couple months to see all of the swelling gone. I had a LBL in late Feb and came out of surgery a tight 16 misses. I went in a tight 16 women's. I had dropped to a 14 by the time I had the upper torso work and leg lipo done in early June but then went to sweats only or long dresses for about 4-6 weeks afterwards because of the huge legs from the lipo. It took until about mid Sept till I finally consistently reached a 12 misses and could count on them fitting in any style. But by that time the upper torso had loosened and thickened some and the waist tended to be quite tight. If that had not happened I would have likely been able to get into many 10's. Now that the hourglass shape has returned, but still quite swollen, I suspect in about 2-3 months that in many cases 10's will fit. It does take a long time for every last bit of swelling to disappear. You will think it's all gone and then a month or two later you will realize that things fit looser and there must have been some swelling left. <p>All I can say is hang in there as it does get better and the results are definitely worth it!!
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November 19, 2004
What about Vaseline, baby oil or (I know it sounds crazy) white Crisco. I tell my patients to use it all of the time. I works wonders on the vagina. ~Keri
   — Kerijohnson