In my research about the DS, I found a blogger who recounted her experience with leaking from her belly button for MONTHS after the surgery.

Is this common? There's so little information about the DS out there, that I'd love to know what complications might arise.

Leaking from the incision near the belly button is possible while healing

I guess it could happen with any lap abdominal surgery. I don't know of it being common with the DS, though.

Edited March 29, 201610 yr by Postop

She was talking about pretty serious leakage. Fluid and solid "fat" bits. Enough to fill a maxi pad she'd covered her belly button with and then to leak all over her bed. It kind of freaked me out, to be honest.

Never heard of such a thing. It might be better to research actual data across populations on a site like medline. Horror stories do happen, but not to most of us.

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Not normal at all at that amount. That sounds more like she got an infection

that seems very unusual for any laproscopic surgery. A small amount from the site is okay but anything like that needs a closer look. Pubmed research states less than 3% major complications following DS, similar to the other bariatric procedures