I was diagnosed with an diastasis recti causing an umbilical hernia I developed this after being pregnant. I am always in sever pain in my lower back and stomach. I feel sick all the time, and it is inter fearing with my everyday life. I am a single mother of a toddler and in college in the medical field. I am missing school all the time because of pain I cant do the things I want to do with my son cause im so weak all the time and in pain. I am not covered by any plan because I am a student. Help?
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Everyone's recovery after pregnancy is different. It all about tissue quality. Some women have great quality skin and fascia which has a better chance of returning to the pre-pregnancy form, while others don't have the elastic recoil and their skin becomes loose with stretch marks...
An abdominoplasty and diastases repair is a cosmetic procedure only. It's goal is to accomplish improve abdominal contour. There's no scientific data that supports it's improve back pain. Therefore it will not be covered by typical third-party payers.
If you have a small hernia or diastasis recti and the CAT scans were done for other reasons(trauma), the interpretation of the scan may not report it. Many of this small defect may be ignored by the report. This is why is important to look at the scan or talk to the radiologist. On the...