Showering Post-op

Hi, I’m booked in to have surgery on Monday and was wondering what they advise re showering post-op?

Hello. I was told I could shower at my post op appointment which was 8 days after surgery.

I didn’t shower for 2 weeks. Just shallow baths until my scabs were quite healed over as we know water can just make a scab come off and it’ll leave you with an open wound again.
I love showers and thought it’d be terrible not having one for a while but it flew by

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If you have real stitches (rather than dissolvable) then its 2 weeks regardless, i had my mum wash my hair for me over the bath and had shallow baths x

My surgeon explicitly advised I could only shower or bathe from my belly button down for 4 weeks.
Wet wipes only for the top half.
After 4 weeks I was able to have a full shower.

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