26YrF 110lbs, umbilical and periumbillical hernias with diastasis. Nine months postpartum. I don’t want to use mesh or have any major scarring. My main concern is repairing the hernias and having my belly button back. Is it possible to have hernias and diastasis repaired without a TT or could the whole procedure be done laparoscopically were with little scarring? I have some excess skin, but I wonder if this will go away with exercise over time? What do you recommend?
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Thank you for your question. The images suggest a significant diastasis of the rectus muscles. I think this is the problem rather than visceral fat. In general, visceral fat accumulation in women occurs when the BMI is around 30 or above, which is not your situation.
Correction of the diastasis...
Hello,
And thank you for the question.
Based on your photos, you do not appear to have recuts diastasis which is a separation of abdominal wall muscles that typically occurs after pregnancy and childbirth.
You appear to have abdominal scar deformity, which can sometimes be revised at the...
The biggest question i would ask your general surgeon is how he is fixing the diastasis. If a hernia and diastasis repair are being fixed laparoscopically or robotically the sequence should be suture repair of the hernia, then suture repair of the full diastasis from pubic bone to xyphoid...
