Help!!! - New York, NY

You'll have swelling for a few months. I'm a bit surprised it sounds like your doctor didn't give you expectations for after surgery. Often times depending on a person's size before a tummy tuck you look bigger than before. Give it time. This recovery is a journey and takes months for the body to heal. You'll have great results. Just stay away from too much sodium, pineapples and their juice help with swelling. Happy healing.

You paid a lot to be so unhappy

Sweetheart, 10 days is still early, the swollen should be gone approx 3 month, final result should be 6 month. Good luck on recovery! I love your waist btw.

I had mines 27 days ago am still swollen and walk funny because you are not walking upright so you butt seems flat am very swollen walk bent you have to be patient it takes about 6 months to see the actual results that's what I was told and reading of everyone else's pass procedure

This surgery is just as mental as it is physical, what you are experiencing is perfectly normal. This is mental/emotional blues. You will love your results just need to give you body time to heal. You are still extremely swollen. The swelling can last 6-12 months. Keep on your compression garment to help aid with the swelling. Take an anti inflammatory (Motril, ibroprofen) it will help with the swelling.

Hi. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. As a patient that has had 4 breast augmentations, I have to say that nothing like that has ever happened, with regards to an open wound around the incision area, especially not the areola. You may want to get that addressed because you don't want scars left there from the wound having to close itself. That's what the stitches are for. I am not a medical specialist but like I said I'm a patient that's gone through this four times and it sounds like the stitches may have been taken out too soon. As for the swelling, give it time to go down. It should be about a month to three months before your boobs get exactly the way they want, especially if it's your first surgery. I know that with my second and third procedures, since the tissue behind a muscle had already been expanded, my swelling time was less and less with each procedure. I do have to say that after the swelling went town, my boobs were about 25% to 30% smaller and I actually miss the sides a little bit. That will be the explanation for my multiple breast augmentation's for increases inside to achieve what the swelling had look like, so be prepared for that if you have it healed significantly in between the date of your procedure and my posting of this comment. The best of luck with everything and may you heal beautifully!