Scarring on belly button

[nogutsnoglory]

My belly button looks so weird and closed up like a knot. Will this scar and possible inflammation open up? I want my normal belly button back lol.

 

[Susan2]

You're lucky to still have a belly button! Mine disappeared somewhere between the third and fourth times that they opened me up from ribcage to pubic bone. :ylol2:

I have a Chinese friend who thinks that it is very bad fortune that I no longer have a belly button because in China the navel is considered to be of very great importance, leading directly into the inner body. I tell her that the bad fortune (having Crohns) happened to me well before the loss of my navel.

 

[nogutsnoglory]

Will it open a little more at least? Or does it remain the way it did after the OR?

 

[handle]

It will open more (mine did a lot) and it helps to massage it and stretch it a little.
BTW Vitamin E oil is great for scars.

 

[ekay03]

nogutsnoglory, I just don't know. Mine never got better. I have now had 5 abdominal surgeries. My belly looks like an off kilter ladder! I hope yours gets better, but remember, you are much more than your belly!

 

[sawdust]

You're lucky to still have a belly button! Mine disappeared somewhere between the third and fourth times that they opened me up from ribcage to pubic bone. :ylol2:

I have a Chinese friend who thinks that it is very bad fortune that I no longer have a belly button because in China the navel is considered to be of very great importance, leading directly into the inner body. I tell her that the bad fortune (having Crohns) happened to me well before the loss of my navel.

Tell her you are a clone and that's why you don't have a navel...

 

[rob101]

could always draw one on where you want it !

 

[Terriernut]

I've been opened like a Christmas turkey, on 22nd of December last year actually. And my belly button opened again. Took about 2 months, but here it came again. And damned if I didnt have to give it a good clean. Errgh!

Usually, after one or two surgeries it will open again...after that all bets are off.

 

[Rain]

mozzy...pretty sure that's impossible...So do you guys/girls have scars around your bellybutton AND a cross looking bellybutton.

 

[Emily]

I remember after surgery I thought I'd be living the rest of my life without a belly button. It was actually there the whole time, it just was sooo squeezed in. After about 2 months or so and some fattening up, mine popped back open! It's a nice little hole now (looks mostly regular except for the scar which lines the top and side of it)

 

[Rain]

mine too but i have surgery friday so it will be a slit again..:/ hooray for bellybuttons!