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Wound Healing Issues After Tummy Tuck

Well now my incision has a scar the shape of an egg in it. I will need a scar revision. My original tt was on 7-1-09. Last time I saw my surgeon was 9-14-10. He wanted to let the area "relax" a little more. What ever the hell that means. Then he will do the revision. I am suppose to schedule an appt with him in january. I may wait a little bit though since i gained some holiday weight. Last time i saw him he was asking if i gained weight and was i still exercising and put me on the scale to see if i was lieing. So i want to get it off before i see him. Its like 5-7lbs. I dont know why he cares its for a revision not a new procedure. I think my doctor is and ASS and i cant wait to not have to see his beedy little eyes again. Any way the revision will be free of charge and done in office. Your wife will probrably need one as well and it should be free as well.

I had my tummy tuck on 7-1-09 and I too had necrosis. I dont smoke am not diabetic, I have none of the main risk factors for necrosis. My whole was about the size of an egg. I could have stuck an egg in it and it would have fit perfectly. It was completely closed around mid to late september I think it was. It closes from the bottom up. It will get less and less deep. It is a pain in the but to deal with. The only thing I can figure is it was because I had lipo at the same time and I think thats why alot of doctors wont combine the two . Or because the doctor actually took of too much and sewed me up too tightly. Which of course he would never admit if he did. He said I will need a scar revision in a year. I am assuming he will not charge me for that. He said he can do that in office in about 20 min. I wish you the best of luck.

my doctor is technically in Duluth. How about yours?

Hi 1lindav I to had a wound that i had to pack from not enough blood flow. My doctor was also in atlanta. I wonder if we had the same one by any chance. my dr. last name started with a d how about yours.?

Actually I had mine after you, mine was on July 1st. Last time i went to the doctor he said that he thinks mine is only the top layer and it luckily didnt go all the way to the muscle. So there is a chance that i wont have to pack it eventually. I am 5 weeks out today. but it is very depressing, i have about six inches in the middle of my stomach that is a white or green puss or some sort, the same stuff is around my belly button. on top of it for some reason the doctor stiched me in a way that there was a fold of skin that looked like a crack between my bellon button to my incision. when i ask them about the "crack" they its just from being pulled really tight it will go away, well the next appt. he said that it was trying to grow together so now i have to wedge something into this crack thing, but when i put the binder back on it pushes it together. Half of it is closed now and i dont know if it healed from the inside out or if it has grown togeher. I really dont know how they would revise a scar like that. There is a lady on here, her name is Pam Brewer and she went through a pretty bad wound issues. She had a whole the size of a lemon, have you found her post yet? She is i think about six months out. she was very helpful. I could forward you our email conversation and a picture she showed me of the whole. It is hard when you see all of these pictures of people 2 and 3 weeks out who look great and its like why cant i be "normal"