Who fills out disability forms if having surgery in Mexico? Will employer and state honor forms?

From your photo, you have what appears to be hemosiderin staining of your tissues. This can result from bruising after any procedure and is usually slow to resolve. It will resolve with time, but it can be improved with the use of a Q-switched laser if you want to expedite the healing process...

It is always more difficult to examine an abdomen that has had prior operations. If you had gained weight it is dfficult to say if your abdomen is protuberant due to recurrent diastasis versus increased intraabdominal fat. Your PS is right that you would need to lose...

It is not uncommon to half some of your stretch marks remaining after tummy tuck, as the procedure doesn't get the higher up stretch marks on your abdomen, it just moves them lower.  Often, the swelling will also make these stretch marks temporarily look worse, but this resolve.  There...

In general, you should start seeing reduction in the mons swelling by about one week after surgery.  Your mons swelling should be much better by one month after surgery.  Final healing may take one year. A compression garment or panties may be helpful.

Typically, there will be significant abdominal wall laxity which needs to be repaired as well as the excessive soft tissue in the flanks that needs to be removed. There is also buttocks atrophy associated with weight loss after gastric bypass surgery.In my opinion, a flour-di-lis incision is...

Dear krystle31, Thank you for your clinical post and photographs. For 4 weeks you appear to be healing uneventfully from the photos provided. Most plastic surgeons recommend wearing the support garment at least part of the day from week 3 to week 6 and particularly when active. Silicone gel...