Weight gain in the first weeks after tummy tucks and liposuction is very common and is, as you have mentioned, the result of fluid retention. Much of this fluid will be shed by 3 to 4 weeks after surgery and you should be back to either your presurgical weight or even less by then.
Heavy Lifting After Tummy Tuck will most likely be after 6 or more weeks to prevent injury. Your plastic surgeon will give you his/her most accurate advice on this. In general:Following surgery, you will be walking in a bent-over position to keep tension off the newly tightened skin incision...
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Every plastic surgeon does procedures differently including the creation of belly buttons. After pulling your abdominal skin down and tighter, your surgeon created a new hole in your skin through which s/he brought your original belly button (umbilicus). The appearance of the...