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Post Tummy Tuck - Pudgy Pubic Area???

Okay I am 2 weeks Post TT. I am overall so much happier with how I look. I can't wait to get my drains out next week. (I hope) My biggest concern at this point is a pudgy pubic area. I am not tiny. I carry my weight well but still am in the 180's I am (before surgery) a size 12 for the most part. I was worried about how pudgy my pubic area was before surgery but my doc said that would improve after. I feel like he could have done a better job spreading out the area under my surgical suture line. Am I worrying over nothing? Is this swelling that will get better? Is this something I have to live with or get fixed later?

Can you share your experience with this?

Thank you!

Julie

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Some of the sutures can take up to 75 days to dissolve and those pucker areas very well may smooth out. Don't make any final judgements for a few months. I will warn you that after my TT when I was unfilled and gained wt, I got really chubby "down there" and my thighs got huge...nice flat tummy, though!!!!

Mimi

Okay I am 2 weeks Post TT. I am overall so much happier with how I look. I can't wait to get my drains out next week. (I hope) My biggest concern at this point is a pudgy pubic area. I am not tiny. I carry my weight well but still am in the 180's I am (before surgery) a size 12 for the most part. I was worried about how pudgy my pubic area was before surgery but my doc said that would improve after. I feel like he could have done a better job spreading out the area under my surgical suture line. Am I worrying over nothing? Is this swelling that will get better? Is this something I have to live with or get fixed later?

Can you share your experience with this?

Thank you!

Julie

Julie:

It might have to do with gravity. Your swelling could be dropping to the lowest point of your abdomen. My doctor did some lipo in that area when I had my tummy tuck and it's not chubby anymore :)

Give it some time, or complain to the surgeon that you're not happy with that area and could he do some lip there?

Good luck.

Sue

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Thanks to both of you. I will try to be patient but let him know that is a concern of mine. By the way my surgeon didn't require an unfil. Actually none of the surgeons I interviewed required an unfil. I'm so glad!

Julie

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A LOT COULD BE SWELLING, I HAD THAT "KEN DOLL" LOOK FOR ABOUT A MONTH

OMG that is so funny. A perfect way to put it. My doctor said if by the end of the summer if after the swelling goes down I still have an issue with it then he will lipo the area.

Thanks so much!

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