I had a tummy tuck and lipo almost 4 weeks ago and the first couple of weeks I looked a lot thinner from the face and this past weekend my face got so much rounder and was thinking if this was normal or not ?
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Swelling below the suture or incision line is not a seroma. Generally the swelling stays for 2-3 months after a tummy tuck due to the fact that while you are up and moving around more gravity pushes the fluid down into that area. In the morning the fluid is less and by the end of the day it gets...
This late numbness is very unusual. I do not have a good explanation or a definitive answer except that it will likely get better over time. Its possible you may have stretched some scar tissue and temporarily created some numbness. I would not perform any additional surgery at this time to...
If your tummy was flat after surgery and remained so for some time, then it is very unlikely that a recurrent belly bulge years later is due to the diastasis repair sutures coming undone. Initially, during the healing phase, the muscle plication sutures are critical in holding the rectus...
