Anyone not get steri strips?

pinkmoonlight

With my first (emergency) c-section with DD. I had stitches and steri strips over the top of my incision. However with in hours of having them on I broke out in blisters. As the days went on it got worse and worse, by 1 week after I was fighting not to tear open my skin because it itched and hurt so bad. I had to sleep with witch hazel wipes over my incision to be able to fall a sleep. I would have to re apply every time I woke up.

In any case even though I was told not to take them off until they fell off I ended up taking them off after 2 weeks because I could not handle it anymore. 

I am having another c-section on May 30 and asked my doctor what the alternative was to them since I had such a bad reaction last time. He told me they just would not put them on.That the plastic surgeons like them on because it makes the scar smaller. I worry about trying anything else that may be stuck on to my skin as I even get this type of reaction from band-aids and other adhesive type of tapes.

Has anyone have something similar happen and use something different the next time? Or not had the steri strips at all?