Post-op Tummy Tuck and I Feel Pain After Walking Slow on Treadmill

The best advice is to listen to your body. If you feel pain or discomfort, there is no reason to push yourself.  You are only 6 weeks out and there is no harm in waiting another 2, 3,, or even 4 weeks. You have the rest of your life to get in shape, but  you need to allow complete healing of your procedure first.

Regarding: "Post-op Tummy Tuck and I Feel Pain After Walking Slow on Treadmill
I am post op 5 weeks and starting walking on the treadmill very slow last week. I normally work out 5 days a week on the eliptical. I started at 1.0 on treadmill for 20 minutes last week. This week I slowly increased it to 2.5 and today after walking 25 minutes I felt something pop. This is not the first time I felt that pop, except it was on the other side. It seems that after I walk I am hurting. It normally goes away in the morning, but am I safe to walk on treadmill?"

No Plastic surgeon wants to hear his Tummy Tuck patients utter the following two words in a single sentence: Pop (or popping) and Hurt (or Pain).

Achilles tendons pop. Tennis racket strings pop. Unfortunately, when overly stressed, the muscle repair stitches of a Tummy Tuck pop as well. This means that the tissues brought together are now released to spread out, undoing, to a variable extent, the degree of muscle repair and potentially losing the flatness achieved by the surgery.

You need to see your Plastic surgeon as soon as possible. In the mean time, I would stop doing what you were doing unless cleared by your surgeon.

Dr. Peter Aldea