Excruciating Nerve Pain in Thigh After Full TT & Lipo?

It's good that you're following up with your plastic surgeon, but when you do ask him/her about possible nerve compression.  Physical therapy might benefit you at this point to help loosen any tightness around the nerves causing the pain.  Good luck!

Hello and thanks for your post. It sounds like you're having a issue involving the cutaneous nerves in the thigh. One study showed that up to 1/3 of TT patients can get this condition and it typically improves over time. The most likely cause is stretching of the nerves. In cases when symptoms are more severe a temporary dose of medicine to calm the nerve as you continue to heal might be necessary. Several medications your doctor might consider are neurontin or Lyrica. Speak with your surgeon and make sure you have an examination to diagnose the cause of your pain. Best wishes, Dr. Aldo.

Your pain is classic for compression or irritation of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve on that side.  Luckily it doesn't happen often, but in your case unlucky it happened to you.  It can be helped.  Ask your surgeon if he can inject steroids into the area.  If you can localize the source of the pain steroids may help.  Your other options are with a physical therapists help such as massage, ultrasound.  Lastly if none of those help surgical release may be needed.  Most of us use absorbable sutures so that may not be needed.

You are describing an rare TT post operative complication of Lateral Femoral nerve entrapment or compression. Treatment could be localized injections of steroids/long acting local, aggressive massages and external ultrasound to directed incisional release operation. Best to discuss with your surgeon ASAP. 

All of us who do a high volume of tummy tucks see this problem on occasion. Usually it follows the distribution of the "lateral femoral cutaneous nerve", affecting the front and side of the thigh. I have on occasion sent a patient to a neurologist, and the suggested treatment has been neurontin. The good news is that this is self limited and should resolve over the course of several months. 

All the best. 

It certainly sounds like you have entrapment of the Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of your thigh.

The nerve may be caught up in a deep suture or it may be compressed in a ligamentous tunnel with post operative swelling the culprit.

If the trigger point can be identified sometimes the injection of some local anaesthetic to numb the area followed by vigorous massage  can free up the nerve if it is caught up by a suture.