Finally After 3 Pregnancies and 120 Lbs Weight Loss - Wilmington, NC--new pics-3 weeks post op

On the 15th of April I went in and had a scar revision, and they took a couple more inches of skin off, the scar is looking better, and he tried to position everything to try and hide my hip bones that stick out so bad..... looking good so far, still cant work out very much, even trying to do yoga hurts. Just from the muscle repair though. Only was on pain meds for 3 days after the revision, no biggie at all!

I'm now 3 weeks post op and am doing great. Had another post op appt. yesterday and doc said I'm still way ahead of schedule. He said I can do whatever I want as long as it doesn't hurt. Had sex twice yesterday and it was awesome! We had to be careful but this surgery has made me so much less self conscious!! Anyways, I still can't lift anything more than a few pounds without my tummy muscles hurting, and moving in bed can be a little painful, but all in all im doing great. He also said I didn't have to wear the binder anymore, he says at 3 weeks it doesnt hurt or help its just whatever feels best...... i dont have to wear anything, or i can do the binder, or spanx or whatever i want. He did say that he is gonna want to go back in this Spring and take some more skin/stretch marks and it'll lower my scar even more, and make me a bit tighter, which I'm happy about, because when I bend over it does hang a little bit, nothing like before though. I knew he'd probably want to do all this before so no schock or anything. I'm still swollen at/above my incision, but I also have pointy hipbones that stick out, so its hard in the pictures to see whats bone poking out and whats swelling........ I like that I'm finally really feeling more like myself, because this not being able to be active thing has really messed me up, I've gained a few pounds and that sucks. Now that I can do a little more though I should lose it quickly....that I've started packing this week for our move, slow and steady. Bit of a change from sitting on the couch groaning for pain meds, lol!! (Havent taken any since the second week.....i occasionally take a dose of tylenol in the morning/evening)

Posted a few 1 week post op pics, and will post some more tomorrow morning (2 week post op) I'm doing OK, hard to get comfortable sleeping, and being off pain meds has me struggling to sleep, maybe its all the binders, but i wake up in cold sweats. I'm probably going to need for them to go back in and tighten up a little more in 6 months or so.... I have a feeling I'm not as tight as I'm gonna want to be, totally standing up straight no problem right now, incision doesnt hurt at all, just a little where the drains were, but my muscles are still pretty sore. All in all not as bad as I thought it would be. Everything is healing very well, but I'm just so swollen riight above the incision its so weird looking. Belly button looks ok, except for on one side theres a little loose skin ,we will see where everything falls into place here in a couple months, trying to be patient, its hard to do that!!