1st pic is 4 days post-op tummy tuck and liposuction. 2nd pics is day 5 post-op. Getting better? Worse? Met with PS yesterday and has me using Silverstat on wound with a wait and see what happens.
December 16, 2021
Answer: Its necrosis where its purple and presumably cold to touch. Expect the area to progress slowly to a point where it stabilizes and demarcates. Your surgeon will have to debride the dead tissue and initiate wound care, usually with saline moistened gauze, washing out the wound in the shower, and continue wound care. Once the dead tissue is gone, your body will miraculously fill in the defect with granulation tissue (beefy red) and your skin eventually grows over it and this will take weeks. Your scar will be much better than you could have ever imagined but scar revisions are often needed to improve on the final outcome. Your surgeon should recognize this easily at your first post-op visit and if you are smoking or exposed to cold, you need to eliminate that now. If you don't mind paying extra, you can rent a Wound VAC that would expedite your process.
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December 16, 2021
Answer: Its necrosis where its purple and presumably cold to touch. Expect the area to progress slowly to a point where it stabilizes and demarcates. Your surgeon will have to debride the dead tissue and initiate wound care, usually with saline moistened gauze, washing out the wound in the shower, and continue wound care. Once the dead tissue is gone, your body will miraculously fill in the defect with granulation tissue (beefy red) and your skin eventually grows over it and this will take weeks. Your scar will be much better than you could have ever imagined but scar revisions are often needed to improve on the final outcome. Your surgeon should recognize this easily at your first post-op visit and if you are smoking or exposed to cold, you need to eliminate that now. If you don't mind paying extra, you can rent a Wound VAC that would expedite your process.
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