I had a tummy tuck with no muscular repair on 10/6. Two veins were cut in the process and I was bleeding internally. On 10/8 I had another surgery to stop the bleeds and everything has been healing nicely since. However I have been swelling a lot on my thighs particularly my outer thighs. I have had inner thigh bruising that has been increasing in size and today a different looking bruise appeared on my outer thigh. I normally don't bruise so I don't know, is this significant? Is this permanent?
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Plicating the muscles (internal corset) pulls the overlying tissue with it creating a bulge in the upper abdomen and if not spread out adequately will create a bulge. If you do a crunch and the bulge worsens, you have a weakness of that area. If you had a mini-tuck, this could be a...
Drains usually come out when they are down to 20cc per day. If yours were putting out 80cc, it is no surprise that you would have fluid collecting. The drain needs to go back in, or the seroma can be drained by your surgeon. Large weight loss patients have larger lymphatics,...
Abdominoplasy (TummyTuck) is becoming a very popular surgery. We understand that not all questions you may have are asked at the time of consultation or even day of surgery, while deciding on the surgery and making arrangement for surgery things slip our mind. To answer your question...