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Always best to follow your chosen surgeon's advise. In my patients I allow "normal" sleeping after 3 weeks.
For the first few weeks or so following a tummy tuck, it is often recommended that you sleep in a slightly flexed position in order to decrease tension on your incision. This will increase the odds of healing without problems and with a better scar. You may be able to sleep on your side in a similar flexed position not too long after surgery. You should contact your plastic surgeon to obtain his/her instructions on this as he/she operated on you and may have their own protocol.
Honestly I have not heard this problem before and so it must be a bit unusual. However, I am always hearing new things that people experience after surgery. As with most aches and pains after surgery, they almost always subside with time even if we cannot exactly explain what is the...
Breast surgery and a tummy tuck will not shorten your life span but enrich your quality of life. This is a wonderful procedure with a high patient satisfaction rate. This is a difficult recovery so be prepared. Pick a good plastic surgeon and follow instructions very carefully.
Dear Isabelle, I have operated on a number of patients with factor V Leiden. I usually ask for the opinion from a haematologist because, as you say, you need to be careful with the anticoagulation. But I have performed often quite major surgery with no adverse outcomes, so I am sure that...
