I am 5 days post op. is my stomach area swollen? It seems a little puffier than the rest of me

OMG, I just had this conversation with my husband! It's not so noticeable when I'm lying down, but when I'm standing I have a swollen area above my largest incision about the size of my hand. So much so much so that there's a little divot where my incision is. Like I'm tufted right there!!

Yes I felt like I looked pregnant for about two weeks afterward. It does go down.

I'm starting week 2 post-op and I still have a swollen area where hernia repair was. However, I did measure my waist with a string, cut where it met end-to-end and yesterday I put the string around waist and it was about 5" bigger than me! Yaba daba doo!!!!! Last week after surgery my first non-dr. putting was to Michael's Crafts. I bought turquoise and wood beads and I'm making a necklace the length of my belly string to wear as a remixer if where I was. I bought nice accent pieces for my 10 pound goals (total want to lose-138 lbs.). Then when someone disbelieves that i could have lost so much weight, ill simply remive my very long necklace (that will be doubled around my neck, no doubt!) put it around my waist and show them "this us how big I used to be! This necklace is my measuring string!!" so psyched!!

OMG, I just had this conversation with my husband! It's not so noticeable when I'm lying down, but when I'm standing I have a swollen area above my largest incision about the size of my hand. So much so much so that there's a little divot where my incision is. Like I'm tufted right there!!

Looing "tufted" is a great description. The divot is where they put in a really strong suture line where they had to remove the stomach and it closes the fascia. The rest of the holes from the puncture of the laparoscopy instruments will heal with more shallow sutures but the big one on the left needs extra reinforcement. Now that I am closer to 8 weeks, it is all starting to smooth out with the lost weight!