Tummy Tuck Seroma

Turning 40 with a desire to have a flat tummy after WLS. A couple of my friends used the same PS. After great research of his work I decided to use him as well. Surgery went well 9lbs off with full tummy tuck. Drains taken out a week later then 7 weeks post op “seroma” with infection. I was having major pain. Every time I stood up It was like my belly and Vagina was gonna fall off. I went in for PS to check it. He stuck me in 3 different places just not the part I said was hot and giving me pain to not get any fluid. So back home to suffer. 4 days later gushers of fluid pouring out of my body to no end!!! The seroma created an opening. It was the weekend so I called the on call PS went in he drained very little since for about an hour of draining in my shower it was mostly gone. He packed the opening with gaze advised me to not let the hole close and gave me antibiotics. Follow up with my doc 2 days later for official seroma diagnosis. He would rather give it time to close itself off before going in to repair it. So that’s where I am to this date. Leaking fluid swollen stretched tummy almost looking like my before tummy and super depressed feeling like I wasted a ton of money. Follow up appointment in 3 more days to see if seroma healed itself or discuss options.

Soooo my gauze that was keep the opening open came out. Weekend was super busy thought I’d just address it at my appointment on Monday. So Monday comes and you can guess my now the healing process was in over drive and no way was a gauze gonna get it there. But I’m still leaking fluid. The volume has decreased I’m not sure if it’s because the opening is smaller or that the seroma is going dry. 3 day return visit for evaluation. Keep you posted. Also my belly has stretched to the point that I have a muffin top over my scar. This saddens me.

Friday I had another follow up to check seroma status. Due to my closed opening(my fault) fluid began to build up again stretching again the wonderful works of what was a nice tummy tuck. Needless to say I’m having surgery to remove the seroma in two days. I’ll update with pics once I’m feeling better. I’m super worried that the seroma has completely ruined my chances of a flat tummy.