I am a healthy 23 year old male who lost 123 lbs naturally. I had a tummy tuck with liposuction exactly two weeks ago. About three days ago my totals were 30 cc on my left drain and 40 cc on my right drain. I started walking more on the treadmill and in the last two days my totals have increased at least 10 cc per drain. Is this normal?
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I doubt that your symptoms are due to too much skin being removed. Mostly likely your symptoms arouse because at a week and a half out, there is still a lot of swelling plus early scar tissue from the drain tract and tummy tuck. I suspect this will get better with time; at...
Unfortunately exercise will have limited, if any, effect on skin excess. Under very specific circumstances and for small areas it can mitigate to an extent the problem but not in the core area. Based on the pictures you would probably benefit from an extended abdominoplasty (270 or 360) to...
Congratulations on your fantastic accomplishment. You appear to be in great shape and losing a few more pounds or a few percentage points of body fat will not make a significant difference in your surgical outcome. By your photos it appears that resection of the redundant skin of your abdomen...