I have a hard mass about the size of an egg under my main incision. My surgeon says it is scar tissue. Is there any way to help that shrink, massage it? ice it? I don't know! It's really uncomfortable when I bend over, move in certain ways, or have a little one snuggled in my lap.

Mine doesn't stick out, but you are probably feeling your port. Thats about the size of it.

Your ticker says surgery was just 16 days ago... that's pretty fast for scar tissue to form and be that size. Maybe ask your surgeon for some kind of imaging study - maybe sonogram -- just to be sure it is what he thinks it is?

It doesn't stick out at all but I had a sleeve so I don't have a port. I'll have to ask him again.

I have a hard mass about the size of an egg under my main incision. My surgeon says it is scar tissue. Is there any way to help that shrink, massage it? ice it? I don't know! It's really uncomfortable when I bend over, move in certain ways, or have a little one snuggled in my lap.

If you have a sleeve, then there shouldn't be a port. Its maybe something else going on there. It may be an infection. I can't believe a scar tissue can cause that issue so quickly. Ask the surgeon. Good luck and feel better.

It might be a hematoma or seroma, kind of a fluid accumulation post surgery. You can Google those terms to see if they describe what you're feeling. I've gotten them with two c-sections. Sometimes the application of application of heat helps, and if you're into essential oils at all, Theives cut in coconut oil and applied directly to the skin cleared up my last one.

It doesn't stick out at all but I had a sleeve so I don't have a port. I'll have to ask him again.

Oops! I didn't see you had the sleeve. Definitely not a port!

It doesn't stick out at all but I had a sleeve so I don't have a port. I'll have to ask him again.

Oops! I didn't see you had the sleeve. Definitely not a port!

If it is just a hard, lumpy feeling over or just above or below your incision it is 100% normal. It will go away soon enough. If it is a large mass that may be a problem.

I had the same thing near my large incision about 4 weeks after surgery. It scared me a bit since it wasn't there one day and the next I had a "mass." The call to the surgeon's office made me feel a lot better - it was a surgery ridge of scar tissue, nothing to freak out about (I was trying to not freak out when I called them ). Now, a month later, it's gone. Whew!