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Your menstrual cycle can be influenced by surgery, making periods late or early. However, please see your doctor for a better assessment of your concern. Best of luck.
Your question is dated three months ago, so I sincerely hope you have seen your plastic surgeon and your OB?GYN to discuss this problem. The tummy tuck procedure is all external to the pelvis, but sometimes after having surgery with a general anesthetic, patients may experience a disruption in their normal menstrual cycle. If the bleeding has persisted, definitely seek the opinion of both your plastic surgeon and your OB/GYN doctor to make sure there is nothing unrelated going on.
Your photographs seem to show a good result, and at 9 weeks post-op you should be able to do a straight-leg lift of both legs that tightens your abdominal wall and shows you the degree of tightening your surgeon achieved for you. Careful surgery and minimal bleeding and scar tissue yield...
Your tummy tuck was in October, 2010, and by your own admission, "went great." Although generalized edema after any kind of surgical procedure can be seen (it's called "third-spacing"), 20-25 lbs is an extreme amount, and it is now 7 months post-op. Surgery-related causes...
All of the answers will tell you that each surgeon chooses suture material on the basis of habit, experience, training, or perhaps on the basis of the tissue characteristics and desired outcome. As plastic surgeons, we all are taught the differences in suture construction (braided or...
Although there may be some fat in the upper abdomen it sounds as if there is dome separation of the upper ectus muscles. This may have be caused by a problem of the previousplication
Thank you for your post. In tummy tuck and other lift/tightening surgeries, tension is the enemy. The scar is healing gradually over 12 weeks or so, and until it is strong, it is the weakest link. As there is a great deal of tension in tummy tucks, body lifts, breast lifts, etc., the scar is at...
Pain whether after a tummy tuck or gall bladder removal is a very subjective issue. I have had patient's with a few days of post operative pain vs weeks. Best to inform your chosen surgeon you might be a longer pain patient so that additional medications can be available.
