After having plastic surgery does your body hold water or fluids as retention?

It is very common to retain fluid after surgery.  This will take several weeks for you to diuresis( or urinate out). Good luck.

Dear jayberms,

Thank you for your clinical post and this is a common
question in patients and will ask about gaining weight after surgery. You’ve had unilateral breast revision surgery
and many patients have substantive liposuction surgery and despite moving
significant amounts of fat can actually put on weight. That is because the body is made up of 42
litres of water. During the
post-operative phase when stress hormones are at their highest water retention
can be very significant. The water
retention can certainly add up to 5-10 pounds as you have experienced and as
your body recovers from the surgery it continues to improve and resolve this
extra water weight will be shed.

There’s not much you can do in the interim to facilitate this
process other than keep active walking, eat normally and allow the normal
post-operative healing phase to take care of both your breast revision and the
increased water weight that will resolve.

I hope this information has been of some assistance and best
of luck.

For more information, please review the link below.

R. Stephen Mulholland, M.D.

Certified Plastic Surgeon

Yorkville, Toronto