Do you reopen the same c section scar for a tummy tuck and if so is it ok if it's already been opened 3 times before?

June 7, 2017
Asked By:rvs213 in San Francisco, CA

I have had the same scar already opened 3 times...the first to remove a cyst on my uterus in 2012, and the other 2 times were c sections. I want to get a tummy tuck but I'm afraid that if they open the same scar a fourth time it may not heal. The last c section I had to go on antibiotics because of an infection and the scar wasn't closing up as easily in certain parts as it did the first 2 times.

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