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Thank you for your excellent question. Because aspirin is a blood thinner best to ask your surgeon about their recommendations on restarting it based on your specific procedures and how your recovery has gone. Hope this helps.
Hi, thank you for your question. Generally aspirin must be stopped atleast 2 weeks prior and after surgery. It is still best to consult this with your surgeon as this will depend on the amount of drains noted on your recovery period.
You should check with your surgeon on this, for my patients I want them to avoid all blood thinners including aspirin for two weeks before and two weeks after surgery. Good luck.
You should consult with a plastic surgeon. I have seen many cases like yours and I have never had to sacrifice the belly button. The best would be for the plastic surgeon and general surgeon to work together.
I recommend two weeks off from work if you do not have a physically strenuous profession. Full healing takes several months but the real limitations are in the first 6-8 weeks post operatively. Exercise may be resumed subject to your plastic surgeon's instructions and based on the course of h...
If you feel like the drains are not moving fluid as well and maybe clogged then the drains need to be "stripped." This is something that is pretty difficult to explain and if done wrong can lead to problems. The main thing is you want to make sure you are always moving the material in the tube...
Insurance will typically not cover any cosmetic procedure and a tummy tuck is considered as such. Insurance will cover a repair of an abdominal hernia or a panniculectomy for documented infections to the abdominal redundant tissue at the waist called a pannus. I would not base any decision on...
The depth is mostly due to pulling the bely button back through the abdominal wall. Some is from swelling but most is just from what I described above. We literally have to stretch the new belly button up through the abdominal wall and if you have a thicker abdominal wall it travels farther and...
Congratulations on completing your surgery. It is difficult to say where the fat will go when you gain weight. Once the fat cells are removed, you never regrow new fat cells but the fat cells that are left behind can get bigger. This can give you an appearance similar to what you had prior to...
