“3 Days After Tummy Tuck”

WOW! Your doc did not give you very many pain meds.Does your doc have to do anything about your seperation? Or will it close on its own?

Hang in there I had surgery on April 7th, today, April 14th, I feel 100 times better. Had my drains out yesterday and saw my tummy for the first time, it was amazing, it will get better soon, your over the worst!

I had my surgery on April 6th and today I feel the best since the surgery. I am not completely happy with my tummy -- not because it isn't flat but because the remaining stretch marks are inflated like balloons and bruised-- Does this go away? Do the stretch marks flatten. They look worse than before the surgery

I had my surgery on march 29 so im a bit ahead of you i started feeling better after the 2 week mark. I still cant stand straight all the way and my back is now hurting due to walking bent over. but things are looking better. hang in there :)

I had my surgery same day as you. I know what you mean by the muscles hurting every time you move the wrong way. I just try to use my arms as much as possible to pull myself into sitting position. You definitely need those legs & arms to be strong.

Yesterday after my tubes came out I was 6 days post op and they said I could buy something like spanks garment instead of wearing the big one from surgury. I purchased a tight spandex type girdle in my normal size. At first it felt like it was not tight enough but this is what she said to use. Anyways I wore it to bed and and in the middle of the night I felt like it was choking my stomach. Went back today and bought one in 2 sizes bigger. It feel ok now during the day but I will see tonight if it's too tight for bed. Also tried sleeping in my bed but slept no better than on my lazy boy couch. I can't take the pain meds because it makes my bowels crazy to I wonder if you are sleeping any better. I fall alseep for a couple hours then keep waking up. Is this a common problem. Also are the rest of you out of your surgury binding and in spanks or something like it?

Glad your surgery went well. I had my tt surgery on 3/25/10 and my main concern about post-op was moving my bowels. If you haven't done so yet, I would suggest taking two cups on Prune juice with a teaspoon of Benefiber in each cup. My girlfriend did this for me and when I tell you it worked....I was soooo happy I didn't have to strain. She had also bought me Phillips stool softner which I took everyday after, knowing the Vicadin was going to bind me up. The Phillips was better than Colace stool softner, because it didn't cause cramping, or bloating. Cramping is the last thing we need lol!! Hope this helped. Please keep us updated.

I had my tummy tuck on March 29, and I must say it was what i expected.I had no pain just swelling and when they took my tubes out i felt great.Everyone made it seem like something painful but it was not my case. I am just a little worried about the lumpy scar but it has only been three weeks so I'm sure the appearance will change in due time.

I am now 11 days post op and feel much better than last week but not yet at normal. I was starting to truly regret this operation. Yesterday I saw the Doc and he says it's looking good and said to come back at 6 weeks. I am very puffy in the pubic area and he said this fluid should be gone soon. My cut is a little higher than I would of liked but still 3-4 under belly button. It's also not that straight but once healed it should be fine. Some surgeons do very low scars but at 50 I don't think I will be wearing tini bikini's. My scar and area above and below is very hard and sticks out. I hope this goes down more as it does feel like swelling. My sleeping is still very broken up, max 2 hours at a time. I hate the compression garment at night, that seems to be causing my waking because it feels so restrictive but I want to always wear it for healing. I still don't feel totally flat with my stomach but because I am still needing to loose 25 pounds this will hopefully slim out. One good thing is I feel like eating less, I hope this is permament as I never want to gain weight now. Sleeping is something I want more of and I know this will come once healed more. I am almost standing straight and have no back pain so hopefully those of you still hunching will straighten up soon. You probably had more skin removed which will mean very nice abs once the skin stretches. I think you need to start trying to walk straighter as the skin will give. I still can't say yet I did the right thing as recovery is harder than I thought but when I look at before and after pictures it gives me hope. As I said before I am still very puffy and swollen below and above insision so not a flat tummy yet, I hope it goes flatter. I am also very ichy and the binding makes it worse. That part I find annoying. Still hoping things keep getting better and wish the same for those of you going through the same. It's so nice to share our recovery as no one else can relate.

i think your doctor did the right thing by not giving you any other narcodic pain meds. my doctor gave me 48 vicodins and i took all 48 pills within 2 weeks. i was taking them round the clock every 6 hrs before the pain even hit me. and when i stopped it OMG i went through vicodin withdraw for 4 awfal days. tylenol is good enough. i heared after 4 days you dont need anything stronger than tylenol