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Tummy Tuck Nightmare - Miami, FL
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I am 6month post op full tummy tuck. My abd has...
annette2466August 11, 2013
$5,000
I am 6month post op full tummy tuck. My abd has not healed. My surgent has r/t to poor wound healing. It has been a nightmare for me. My surgent is out of state, so I have to rely on phone calls and emails. After speaking with surgent, he doesn't know what it could be that is preventing my abd from healing, but had a number of possibility. He wants me to come back Fl to further assess promblem. I can't take time off. In the meantime, a new wound open underbelly and continues to drain. I have seen general surgent r/t wound opening and f/u abcess. He suggest exploratory surgery. He thinks possible stitch abcess or infect stitch that need to be removed. At this point, I don't know what to think or do. I am more afraid than anything. I feel like things are out of my control. A elective surgery gone horrible wrong. I am due to have a revision at the end of year, by same plastic surgent but due to complications, need to be closer to home. I saw another ps, he thinks I need infection diease consult to help identify problem and heal wounds. No revision. He doesn't specialize in revision. I need to figure out what to do next before my health becomes compromised.
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UPDATED FROM annette2466
1 year post
Tummy Tuck nightmare
annette2466April 20, 2014
It has been a year since my tummy tuck surgery, it all healed. My tummy is still not how I wanted it. The surgical line is irregular. One side is higher than other. I had difficult time returning to Miami to follow up with Dr Oretga. I am from Maryland. I found a Dr.Michael Cohen. He is a surgent and Plastic Surgent. He is excellent. Love him to death. He attempted to correct some of the flaws in the incision line. I would love to have a revision performed, but
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November 17, 2014
im in the er with mine i had a great lift and implants and tt and it looks so bad i have never seen such horrable work
January 4, 2017
Yup Ortega did mine too I'm scared if I might need a scar revision but my wound is healing real fast I'm using oils and making sure there is no infection I hav about three more months till it close
January 4, 2017
So scary you need to go to the er make sure nothing wrong and make sure you don't have any thing I got such a bad infection from him.
April 10, 2017
I just want you to be okay, no one should endure all these surgical problems for an elective procedure.
UPDATED FROM annette2466
1 year post
Tummy tuck nightmare
annette2466April 20, 2014
Here some pics. It looks better.
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April 20, 2014
I am having trouble too with a tummy tuck from ortega. right following surgery a part of my incision remained red and now 12 days later I have an open 'quarter' (coin) sized gaping unhealed wound, with the looks as though another an inch away is beginning. Non smoker, followed all my directions, took all my meds etc etc, yet here |I am.
January 1, 2017
I am very sorry that happened to you - he is a very unskilled surgeon. Dr. Ortega is a butcher.
January 2, 2017
He almost killed me I end icu for weeks and picc line etc I had my surgery in nov 2014 what a mess.
January 2, 2017
I been trying to talk people out of using him and there business prices are cheap and I below to a group of people that want to get work done and I make they all know what a mess this place he is. Also does not have malpractice insurance.
January 4, 2017
It's a swing door they do so many of them cause it's so cheap but it's not good work and many people get botched work or infection.
January 8, 2017
Yep I been there and I'm a pa and I trusted him and end up in icu after keep talking with him then picc line and meds for 4 months threw picc line it took me a year to feel better.
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