I am 6 weeks post FTT with diastasis recti & umbilical hernia repair. My abdomen is still very swollen. I still wear my compression garment w/a tight binder 24/7 & am constantly sucking in my stomach. I spent $12,000 on this & am worried that this is my permanent result.
I haven't lifted anything heavy, drink lots of water, eat no sodium, work from home at a computer & have a live-in nanny who takes care of my kids. Could my muscles have relaxed? Will this go down? I see my PS next week.
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Thank you for your post. Seromas can be painful and cause a cosmetic deformity, as well as sometimes leak. The whole point of drains is to keep a seroma from happening in the first place. If a drainless procedure was performed, and you had a seroma, or you had drains that were pulled and you...
Before commenting, I think it would be helpful if you clarified: from the first photo, it looks like you had a full abdominoplasty with a typical, hip-to-hip incision as well as an incision around the belly-button. Can you confirm that? One of the commenters above does not appear to have either...
Not only do I not even use a catheter in the OR for Tummy Tuck, I have never heard of any Plastic Surgeon who discharged a patient with one. This is a set-up for a urinary tract infection. I, and many other Plastic Surgeons, do use wound drains for a few days, and those could be confused...
