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Incision is Splitting in Center and Has a Yellow Pus Coming out - is This Normal?

I am 3 weeks post tummy tuck and my incision steri strips fell off in the center. The incision is splitting about a quarter of an inch open in the...

15 doctor answers

Is It Normal For My Wound To Be Oozing Post-Op? I'm Wearing A Girdle All Day.

I had my tummy tuck done two weeks ago I started to do massages on the 22nd of sept and the scar opened I little but I was very worried than I want to...

7 doctor answers

What Can I Do About "Stitch Spitting" and Absess when the Sutures Are Nondissolvable?

My ruptured breast implants were removed on July 2nd, 2011. Since then, sections of my scars remained red and oozed blood and a puss. After about a...

3 doctor answers | 1 community comment

Infection and Oozing from Incision Post-Tummy Tuck

I am 2 weeks post tummy tuck and about 7 days ago developed an infection. Fever, chills, extreme pain on the side infected (so much so that I...

4 doctor answers

Belly Button Healed Shallow With No Indention - Can This Be Revised?

I had my tummy tuck 4 months ago. The belly button took a long time to heal. It was open, oozing thik dark smelly puss for a good three weeks. It was...

6 doctor answers

I Had a Tummy Tuck 2 Years Ago and my Belly Button Area Never Has Healed! Always Oozes, What is the Problem? (photo)

I had the tummy tuck 2 years ago. Area by belly button still raw. Been to many doctors, including dermatoligist. The last time I saw the plastic...

9 doctor answers

Should I Be in the Hospital, Staph Infection and MRSA not Getting Better After TT??

Many of you have been following my questions lately and have seen my pictures of the green infection coming from the holes in my TT insicion. As you...

4 doctor answers

Seroma (tummy tuck) look Normal? (7 wks post-op) (photo)

I'm 7 wks post op from total abdominal hysterectomy AND full tummy tuck. Still have decent amt of swelling. This SEROMA is right on my incision and...

2 doctor answers

My Belly Button is Stil Oozing Fluid Twelve Weeks Post Op, Why?

I started Cipro and my PS did an exploratory to search for a possible permanent stitch that he thought may be causing the problem. He found nothing,...

1 doctor answer