The Dr. said I am fine how ever my stomach fat is pulling on my incisions so much that it is terribly painful!

I am still taking pain medication... using ice packs and still resting. I am 10 days out. Does anyone have a simple suggestion of that I can do? I don't want to take the Vicodin anymore. I want to be back to normal for my kids sake!

Thanks for your help in advance

Try an abdominal binder. You can get them at babies or drug stores. It helped me a lot.

I will look for one! First thing in the morning...

Thank you for the quick response!

They have them at walmart also back in the exercise equiqment.

Make sure you rest and don't bend down/over. I had pulled stitches that tore my muscle. The binder made my back hurt and then when I took the binder off it was an excruciating, I want to pass out kinda pain!

I used a binder, however the pain didn't go away until my stitches were pulled. I was allergic to them. I developed some redness and two raised areas. I had them removed 11 days postoperative. And I am now 2 weeks out.

I only had one incision that was really pulling. I put on some of those more elastic support panties and used heat on the area. Really helped.

The belly binders for pregnant women work well and are comfy.