incision dent

[ombrerose4]

Seven months post op tomorrow and my surgical incision just seems to keep sinking deeper. Sometimes when I turn my head it feels weird. The last time I saw my neuro-otologist i had him look and he did say it was deeper than before, but didn't think it was or could become a problem. Anyone else out their with a sinking head? Is this something to be concerned about?

[leapyrtwins]

My AN incision didn't sink, but my BAHA site did - and that's not a problem.

Jan

[Kaybo]

I still have a big dent behind my ear - & figure I always will.  I remember asking the Dr. why the fat on my head dissolved and the fat on my stomach does not!!  Since my hair covers it, I don't worry about it!

K   

[Jim Scott]

Lauren ~

I'm not sure if this is useful to you but I'm almost four years post-op and I have a medium-sized 'dent' in my skull at the incision site.  Fortunately, I have a full head of hair and it isn't noticeable so, like Kay, I ignore it.  As your doctor stated, this shouldn't be a problem. 

Jim

[MamaGina]

I, too, have a dent. I call it a hole. It's where the surgeons drilled my skull open. I figure its like a fontenal (on a baby) that will never close. When I bang my head there, I get shocks that go down to my feet. It's under my hair too. The bone is missing, that is why it sinks.

[ombrerose4]

I know, I feel so unprotected there, like if I fell and hit that part I would be in big trouble.

[Cheryl R]

We were supposed to have a contest at the last symposium as to who had the biggest dent!    We have to remember this for the 2011 fun!     Now what could the prize for who has the worse?                       Cheryl R

[MamaGina]

We were supposed to have a contest at the last symposium as to who had the biggest dent!    We have to remember this for the 2011 fun!     Now what could the prize for who has the worse?                       Cheryl R

I like jewelery!!   

[leapyrtwins]

Jewelry is nice, but pricey.

I vote for chocolate 

Jan

[Debbi]

Yep, Lauren, I have the huge dent, too.  I refer to it as a chasm.  It freaked me out when I first felt it, but the surgeons assure me that it is not uncommon even for those of us with titanium plates. 

Cheryl - YES, let's have a contents next year at the symposium!  And, I say that we ALL get chocolate, dented head or not...

See you in a couple of weeks, Lauren.

Debbi

[Cheryl R]

Chocolate sounds wonderful!       I feel for the poor people in the world who can't eat it for some reason or another!   
                                            Cheryl R

[NancyMc]

Me, too, on the dent . . . and the chocolate!

[Soundy]

We were supposed to have a contest at the last symposium as to who had the biggest dent!    We have to remember this for the 2011 fun!     Now what could the prize for who has the worse?                       Cheryl R

Bondo  ... OK not a tasty as chocolate but it was the first thing that popped to mind

ombrerose4 ... are you talking about th hole behind your ear or actual incision??? when I was reading incision in first post I was trying to figure out why or how the incision could sink... I would be in big trouble if incision sunk seeing it runs way up over my ear and about 2 inches back from the edge of the hole where they drilled through my skull


PS ... did you know that spell check tries to change ombrerose4 to sombreros  

[ombrerose4]

It's my incision that's sunk- a large part of it anyway. The doctors tell me it's just the way it's healing. I didn't have the bone put back, it was a bone substitute.