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Chronic Pain and GI issues after Tummy Tuck

By fighter352133 | 5 posts, last post
Dr Artem Agafonov answered this Long-Term Solutions to Chronic Pain
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fighter352133

Has anyone had chronic pain, distended abdomen, GERD after Tummy Tuck?

 

I was a petite girl that got talked into having a Full Tummy Tuck. Immediately after I knew something was wrong and I was sewn up way too tight. The pain was immense and now 5 months later I am still in excruciating pain, have swelling in the muscles that gets bigger and bigger each day, I look pregnant. My belly is rock hard and distended and I have developed digestive issues and GERD that I never had before the surgery. I am actually so scared for my life and went from vivacious and successful and independent to stuck on the couch on numerous medications. I only wish to find a solution or way to function like this. It seems like everything that could be wrong is. Has anyone had any of these issues and found solutions or relief?

Guest

Yes I too am petite and this is month 14 for me. Have you found any answers to this nightmare?? Let me know.
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Guest

It has been 16 years for me. I am also petite. I have all the issues you mentioned. Have you found any help?
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Guest

Just saw this. I have been dealing with similar since my TT 2013. I recently discovered the stitches in my muscles are permanent, not self-dissolving.. I am on the hunt to get them removed and now am constrained to finding a group with an MD anesthesiologist because an anesthetist nurse won't take my case. Due to the GERD which was minimal prior to TT, it is now bad enough I have to have general anesthesia. Now in my 60's at 5'6" and 140# I wouldn't classify myself as petite but I have always been slight, no weight fluctuations and no pregnancies. I got TT due to increasing waviness in lower belly from lipo in 1980's (for genetic "pot belly"). The extreme persisting tightness is because I don't think the surgeon had enough excess flesh to work with.
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Guest

Please let me know how things turned out?  I'm 6 mpo and also have issues

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Guest

Hello… it’s been 2.5 years for me and it’s been horrible. My stomach swells through out the day where I never had issues before … in the am it’s better… but as the day progresses it gets worse and when I eat it feels like my food just sits there. I wish I never would have had this procedure. I traded a cosmetic issue for uncomfortable pain everyday.
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