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Could I have possibly pulled a muscle in my stomach? 2 weeks post op tummy tuck

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Stoney84Oct 29, 2016

I pulled up on my stomach muscles getting out of bed by accident I can feel a lump on the left side of my stomach now and it's painful, could I have possibly pulled a muscle?

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Dr. Harry T. Haramis, MD, FACS
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Dr. Robert Stroup, Jr., MD, FACS
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