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Three weeks post op, I have very hard band like area, below my incision line. Is this normal? (photos)

Bonbon70Aug 24, 2014
Three weeks post op, I have very hard band like area, below my incision line especially on pubic area, and numbness upper thighs, that comes and goes. Also getting little bruises in the hardest areas, what can help this hardness go away?

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