12 Days After Tummy Tuck - Did I Tear My Muscle Repair?

asked 1 year ago by Zina1 in Yonkers
Latest answer by Farhad Rafizadeh, MD
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Tags: muscle, repair, sneezing, tear

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?

11 answers to 12 Days After Tummy Tuck - Did I Tear My Muscle Repair?

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

Peter E. Johnson, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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! see video

Kenneth R. Francis, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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.

Shahin Javaheri, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon

Muscle repair in tummy tuck

It is rare to hurt the muscle repair after a tummy tuck. Best to re-visit your doctor and have them examine you.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

12 Days After Tummy Tuck - Did I Tear My Muscle Repair?

Best to return to your chosen surgeon ASAP. He can examine the area. From MIAMI Dr. darryl j. Blinski

Darryl J. Blinski, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Tummy Tuck Recovery

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. Good Luck.

David Shafer, MD
New York Plastic Surgeon

www.ShaferPlasticSurgery.com

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.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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.

Farhad Rafizadeh, MD
Morristown Plastic Surgeon

Tummy tuck

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.

Antoine A. Hallak, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon

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). It seems that you have two different issues at hand. Tummy tuck +/- incisional hernia? or diastasis repair? It is difficult to tell from your description. The former often... more

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Tummy Tuck

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... more