39 Years Old, Two Boys and in Need of a Much Needed Tummy Tuck!!! - Bronx, NY

So unfortunately, although I am quite pleased with the results, I have a belly button revision that needs to be done. There is a flap of skin that scarred over where the hole would be so in essence, it doesn't look like an " inny" belly button. Scarring around the waist is slowly becoming more invisible with applications of cocoa butter and I love the tightness of my belly! Pictures to follow soon. Thank you for your comment and all the best to you!

Hi guys! Here is an update on my recovery to share with hopefully anybody it will help! So as you already know I had a basic full TT, with a umbilical hernia repair. I had no lipo or muscle repair of any kind. I am doing much better than the first few days with a pain level of about 3 or 4. I will have occasionally stingy, itchy tightening feeling around the stitch area. Like everyone else's review I've read, I have lots of swelling on the upper part of my tummy so I look about two months prego. I don't mind however since I've been much more optimistic than before. I've lost five pounds since the surgery. I haven't had much of a hearty appetite but I do eat three square meals. The thing that may take longer than expected is my belly button. It looks like there is a huuuuge blood clot inside of it and is not healing as fast as the rest of the stitches or drain areas. It is also the most sensitive part and the binder will rub on it sometimes if I am moving around too much. Belly button issues are from when the dr. had to go in through the belly button to repair the hernia. I can not wait to have full motion of my body back. On a positive note, I feel soo much thinner than before. Like all the way around my waist even though I'm swollen. So bizarre. I manage light house work but bending is near impossible since my belly button is still very sensitive and inflamed. My PS is monitoring it over the next few weeks but continues to tell me to bath twice a day and allow the soap and water to run over it. It will hopefully dry up and heal. I'm hoping the dried part will fall off like a newborn babies belly button so that I can see the new fresh growth underneath! I guess I will be patient and continue not to move around to much.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to update you all. I had a post op with Dr. Garfein today. My drains are out! Bad news. My belly button is not healing so well. :( He ended up open the wound around it a little bit. (Didn't feel much thankfully). He says everything looked ok underneath the dry coagulated blood so maybe its just dry blood however he wants me to clean around it twice a day with soap and water. I can now fully shower so I am thankful for that! Just a little concerned about the belly button. Maybe it looks that way because I also had a hernia repair and the doctor had gone in through there to repair it??