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Skin Graft Anonymous
Hello, /fit/!

I was hoping someone here might be able to answer my question. Back on nov 05 2007, I needed a skin graft because of a severe burn. They took the skin from my outer right thigh and I was in the hospital for a few weeks, now that its 6 months, I expected to seem some kind of results on the donor site but there is still a big red rectangle that hasn't changed at all. The graft site hasn't changed much either. Anyone here had a skin graft and if so, how long did it take the donor site to heal?
>> Anonymous
heal? by that time it should be healed fully. maybe you mean scar tissue? Those can stay -gasp- forever.
>> OP
well the doc said the redness from the donor site will go away but I never really thought it would take this long. It's still as red as it was before. It just isn't peeling like it was before.
>> Anonymous
This sounds awesome. Post pics.
>> OP
I don't have a camera.
>> OP
You might be confusing the donor site with the graft site. They took the top few thin layers of skin from my thigh (the donor site) to put on the burn (graft site) so it would heal. The donor site was supposed to eventually heal those layers of skin back on my thigh but it hasn't yet. The donor site isn't supposed to have scar tissue as a result but the graft site will have a circular scar where the skin was sewn in.
>> Anonymous
Be more detailed about the place where they took the skin from. You said it was red, but aside from that, does it look any different than regular skin?

Is it shiny? Does it get crinkly and weird looking if you pinch an area near that skin?

In other words, is it scar tissue, or just ordinary skin that happens to be red?

If it's just ordinary skin that happens to be red, you might could try a hydrocortisone cream to help it turn a normal color faster.

If it's scar tissue, then it sounds like your doctor took too many layers, and this is very bad. You could try something like Mederma.
>> OP
It is a little shiny and crinkly, but from other scar tissue I have the hair doesn't grow from it. It does from my leg though. Also my doc suggested I use lotion. Which I have now for quite a while, not much improvement though. From what I gather here, you're saying it shouldn't take this long for the donor site to heal?
>> Anonymous
you might have aids
>> OP
>>68564
oh? GTFO MY /fit/
>> Anonymous
>>68563
I'm sorry dude, it sounds like that is scar tissue and there may not be much you can do. I don't know much about skin grafts, but from what you said here...

>>68549

...it sounds like the donor site shouldn't normally have scar tissue and I think that's what you have. I'm betting they must have just taken too many skin layers when they took skin from the donor site, or maybe they did something else wrong.

Then again, I am not a doctor, so you probably want to talk to someone who actually knows what they're doing. If I were you, I'd get an IRL second opinion from a different doctor, and see what he/she thinks.

If it does turn out to be scar tissue then I guess that means your doctors botched the procedure, so maybe you can sue them, or at least get them to buy you a year's supply of mederma or something.