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Thank you for your question. I would wait at least 8-12 weeks before starting a weight loss supplement. Ask your surgeon for his recommendations when to restart.
I would wait until everything is healed before you start altering your body chemistry with a medication such as phenetermine. Before 3 months, it is not in your best interest.
Its best to ask your plastic surgeon about his/her recommendations. I generally would tell you to wait a few weeks before resuming those meds. Best wishes.
In our practice, patients can return to any preoperative medications after 3-4 weeks, but each surgeon has their own routine so it is best to ask him/her directly. Best wishes.Below is a fully healed tummy tuck.
You may be having some muscle spasms following your TT, or you may be feeling some fluid which may be shifting as you move. Let your surgeon know about this. There are treatment options if the symptoms become bothersome. But either way, this should resolve over the next few...
This is a great question. Blood type (either ABO or Rh factor) shouldn't affect your ability to undergo a routine plastic surgery procedure such as liposuction or a tummy tuck. Blood type is important in matching donor blood for a transfusion, and most major hospitals should have all...
The first garment should be fitted for you in the office prior to surgery and applied in the operating room. Often it will become loose as the edema is mobilized, and then it will need to be replaced. Spanx is a reasonable compression garment if it gives enough support and is the right size. I...
This is a difficult correction and depends on the anatomy of what's left. If the belly button stalk is long enough, it may be possible to shorten the stalk which will narrow the width and pull in the belly button. However, there's no guarantee this would work. From your photos, it does not...
I have personally not seen a significant difference in bleeding from patients taking normal doses of vitamins.Different surgeons have different views on this topic.Tell your surgeon about all medications, vitamins and supplements you're taking.Best of luck,Mats Hagstrom, M.D.
Unless you can find the knot, you will either have to see a local surgeon to have it removed or pull on it and cut at skin level and allow end to retract under skin... accepting that you are not getting the suture removed and that it could expose itself again. Without knowing what kind of...
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