u/indianyooper1

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Question for Hairy guys post CABG.

45m had cabg x3 on april first. Everything went well and recovery has been progressing well. Started cardiac rehab june 1st. The only annoying part/issue I have is...I am a hairy guy. They shaved me pre op and the hair has been growing since, not back to its full prior glory but the sensation was the most singularly annoying part of this whole process. The surgeons did a fantastic job with my sternotomy incision( it was a resident and a fellow that opened and closed me). In different spots of my incision, there are what look like ingrown hair looking areas where I have had to take tweezers and pull out the fine hairs and not so fine hairs. I would love some input from other hairy guys who have had OHS about what their experience has been like and what they did, if anything, to help with this.

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u/indianyooper1 — 9 days ago

Does your legs do this?

This is my right leg where they harvested the vein for my cabg and post surgey this is what it does. Anyone else notice this in their legs where they harvested?

u/indianyooper1 — 1 month ago
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Anyone else have this happen?

45 m cabg x3 .8 weeks post op. They took the greater saphenous vein from my right leg. Since the surgery my right butt cheek feels numby, tingly. Not painful. Like if I'm sitting, after a while it feels like it fell asleep. If I get up and walk around it feels fine. Even post op while I was laying in bed in the hospital it would feel numb, I thought it was from laying on my back in the table and laying on my back in the hospital.

Anyone else have this happen? How long does it take for this feeling to go away?

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u/indianyooper1 — 1 month ago