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12 Days After Tummy Tuck - Did I Tear My Muscle Repair?
12 days post op and i don't feel tight and able to laugh with no pain, but, still hurts to sneeze.. did i tear my MR?
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Zina1
in Yonkers
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Tear in a muscle repair after tummy tuck
Tearing a muscle repair after your tummy tuck is difficult to do and the pain involved will be considerable. You should feel better as you do at 12 days, and soreness after a cough or sneeze is expected. Keep in a snug binder for support 24/7 and give you body the rest that it needs.
Best of luck,
peterejohnsonmd
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Sneezing at 12 days
Zina,
It is not unusual to experience pain with sneezing 12 days after a tummy tuck. If you tore the muscle repair your pain would be more constant, and very likely worsened with laughing. If there is a real question, contact your surgeon for a follow up visit. Good luck!
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Tummy tuck
It is unlikely that you have torn your muscle repair unless there was a severe coughing or nausea in the immediate post-operative period. It sounds normal.
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12 days after surgery you may or may not still have discomfort from the muscle repair. It is unlikely that you have a tear in your muscle repair. Actually, if it tore, you may have more discomfort. If there is any concern, you should see your surgeon for an evaluation.
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Muscle repair and tummy tuck
It is doubtful from sneesing or slight coughing that you tore your repair of the muscles. If concerned you should see your doctor.
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I don't feel tight and I am able to laugh with no pain. Did I tear my muscle repair?
The pain and discomfort is very variable post abdominoplasty. Some patients like yourself are surprisingly very comfortable. It is usually the tissues that fail and not the sutures. If that were to happen at this stage, it would cause bleeding and it would be more painful.
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Its very unlikely you torn anything, the sutures used to tighten the muscle are very strong and ripping through the muscle is very painful, you would know.
I still suggest you mention it to your surgeon since he is the only who knows what technique and what sutures were used.
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Nearly any problem is reparable.
Nearly any problem is reparable. Sneezing is unlikely to affect your tummy tuck.
However, you must first determine if you have a problem that needs correction. This may be an easy diagnosis or one that requires time to become more apparent and may involve use of diagnostic imaging (MRI or Ultrasound).
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Tearing the muscle repair after tummy tuck ranges from "fairly hard to do" to "darn near impossible" - depending on the technique the surgeon used to effect the repair and the qulaity of your tissues. If your surgeon used a series of single stitches to put your muscles together and your tissues are good, it's very unlikely that you ripped enough of them by sneezing to "tear" your repair. If your surgeon used one single stitch running it...
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