Does inguinal hernia surgery requires a catheter?

Resolution of nerve pain varies between patients.  It may take months  to resolve. Continue to use Gabapentin and follow up with your plastic surgeon.

I agree with others that this does represent the muscle repair site and that it will most likely improve. However, how much it will improve may be related to the type of suture that was used to perform the muscle tightening. The reason for mentioning this is that I have noticed more softening of...

Drains are removed based on output. Typically they are in place for 1-2 weeks following a tummy tuck, but it will vary by patient. Once the drainage output decreases to a given amount the drains will be removed.

Thanks for your inquiry and excellent question. Sorry to hear about your mother's struggles with adhesions.  I am going to disagree with my esteemed colleagues a bit. During a routine abdominoplasty, we do not enter the peritoneal cavity. If you, the patient, do not have ahesions in your...

Believe it or not, I have had several belly buttons that seem to "move" around on a patients belly during their healing process.  My theory (and I have no true evidence for this) is that the muscle tightening sometimes is either uneven, or the abdominal muscles spasm and force the umbilical...

Great question! Some doctors find it aesthetic, or good looking, to remove the fat in the midline to make the abs look more "etched", when really there is no abdominal definition really present. It creates an illusion. Some surgeons do use quilting sutures in the midline which may accentuate it....