Can Sex After a Tummy Tuck After 12 Weeks Make Swelling Worse?

After any type of surgery including tummy tuck surgery, it
is normal for areas to have a significant amount of swelling which tends to
resolve over time and certainly increased activity can increase the
swelling. It is also completely expected
that it may take quite a bit of time for the swelling to completely
resolve. I would discuss this concern in
detail with your board certified plastic surgeon. Fortunately, swelling in and of itself does
tend to resolve if given enough time.

Hi,

  It is normal for the redraped abdominal tissue to undergo swelling with it being worse in the evening and less in the morning.  This is beause of the drainage of the redraped tissue.  More and more vessels will develop to drain the tissue and the process described decreases over about a year.

 Anything including sex can increase the arterial blood in the redraped tissue but the veins need to increase in number to drain the blood brought in by the arteries.  Hence exercise and activities that increase your blood pressure can cause swelling but this is all temporary.  Your drainage system will improve and this process of swelling even with exercise/sex will stop.