I had a tummy tuck, lipo and breast implants. I am coughing up mucus/blood. Is this normal?

This is an unusually large area of full thickness skin loss, rarely seen in cosmetic surgery. The reason is poor vascular flow to this area, whatever the cause. Your surgeon is right, that this large area to be healed in fairly short time (weeks) would require a wound vac system. This means,...

Unfortunately scarring is somewhat unpredictable and it's management can be challenging.  Radiation treatment can be very effective for problematic keloid scarring.  The procedure involves surgical excision followed by three radiation treatments in consecutive days, typically starting...

The drain sites from a tummy tuck are the most difficult problem for the patients with respect to discomfort.  If you tape the drains down to the skin they will move less at the drain exit sites, causing you less pain.

Thank you for your pictures. If you have a point where this seroma is draining it really depends on how much of the seroma is left internally whether something else needs to be done. An examination by your plastic surgeon here in the states will lead you down the right path of treatment.

The fatty pooch that you refer to is normally a hysterectomy scar that tightly bound down to deeper tissue with fat and skin piling up above the scar tissue, leading to an overhang.  Obviously, a tummy tuck would remove this and other skin and soft tissue above it.  However, if this is...

It is unlikely that you would be able to hurt your muscle reconstruction by sucking in your stomach this far after a tummy tuck.