Is It Normal to Leak Fluid (Not Drains) out of Your Vagina After TT and Smartlipo?

Many women note improved abdominal muscle tone after a tummy tuck.  Not right away of course but after they have a chance to heal and recover from their surgery.  Other patients will also talk about relief or improvement in their back pain.  So it appears for many women, a tummy...

Thank you for your question. You may find out that each surgeons preference for drain removal differs, my preference is to remove the drains once the drain output is low (less than 20cc). I have out of town patients who travel for tummy tuck surgery and I ask those patients to stay in...

Unfortunately, you have had a long-incision abdominoplasty with umbilical "float" when you were actually a better candidate for a full or extended abdominoplasty with "standard" umbilical transposition. (That surgical judgement may not have been evident pre-operatively, but it clearly is now...

If you really want a tummy tuck, then it is probably good to go ahead and get it done the same time as the hernia repair. It can make the exposure for the hernia repair easier but tummu tuck does have risks. I don't know anything about your medical conditions. To see what kind of surgical...

Postoperative pain can be a challenge to pinpoint.  It would be helpful to know how far out from your surgery you are and to know for certain that it was a tummy tuck.  Sometimes a nerve can be irritated during the surgery and many of the nerves to the skin are cut during the surgery....

A large series of patients was studied and reported in our primary journal a few years ago, and the incidence of DVT (deep venous thrombosis) was reported as 1.2%, and the incidence of PE (pulmonary embolus) as 0.8%. These are low numbers, but are not low enough to ignore. These represent...