![]() ![]() Arrange for childcar and stay close to your babies by snuggling with them on the couch. Doing so stresses your incisions and can lead to internal bleeding or poor scarring. But you must not lift or carry anything heavy for 6 weeks after a tummy tuck. Pick up & carry my kids? If you’re a mom, this is a biggy.For most patients, 2 weeks is a reasonable timeframe. Drive my car? You need to be off pain meds and able to wear a seat belt comfortably before driving.Go back to work? If you have a desk job, take 2 weeks off minimum. Do not return to physical work that requires you to use your abdominal muscles for 6 weeks.Take your time and move about slowly, but do move about. Get out of bed/get to the bathroom without help? You’ll need assistance as you move from lying to sitting to standing (and vice versa) for 3 to 5 days.Don’t be scared-drains are simple to maintain and will help you feel much better and heal faster by taking pressure off of your healing tissues. Your surgeon may place drains at your incision site to collect fluid during the first week after surgery. You’ll be slow, but get up frequently (with help!) to take short walks around the house. Although our doctors use surgical techniques designed to minimize post-op pain and swelling, you may experience considerable discomfort, which maxes out about 3 to 5 days after surgery and then starts to subside more and more each day. The first few days are not going to be a picnic. Here’s the scoop: How will I feel after a tummy tuck? But ask any of our many satisfied tummy tuck patients, and they’ll tell the recovery is totally worth it. ![]() a desk job). Physical work, lifting and carrying are off-limits for about 4 to 6 weeks-this will require some extra planning on your part if you have small kids. Expect about 2 weeks away from light activity (i.e. Read all of my Mommy Makeover posts here.A tummy tuck can make dramatic improvements to your abdominal shape and size (not to mention your self-confidence), but with these benefits comes a slightly longer recovery period than other procedures. Please reach out with any questions you have. Your back gets stressed doing the work your abs usually do. Using the wall I’d stand with my back to it, trying to straighten up as much as I could. TIP: One thing I found helpful during the first week was standing as straight as possible. I think I would have had an even better experience if I would have followed the medication instructions more carefully. The anti-nausea medication would have helped me sleep. I didn’t realize that I should have been taking both the pain pills and the anti-nausea meds. Oddly enough, it was only on the right side.Īnother thing that may have contributed to that pain was the way I took my pain medication. The only time I felt pain when I would move in a way that bothered the incision. I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened if I would have had someone to help me. It bled once when I was trying to get off the couch (by myself). The incision is where I felt the majority of the pain all week. I’m sure this kind of fear and remorse is typical after a surgery of this magnitude.Īfter 48 hours I was able to remove the bandage and shower, which felt amazing! My abs were still numb so I didn’t feel any pain, but the incision was sore. Nothing major I just felt foggy all the time and kind of sad. It could have been the medication or the fear of the unknown. Davis to make sure everything I was experiencing was normal, and he agreed that it was. I wasn’t sure if it was normal because I couldn’t find any pictures that looked like mine. I knew there would be a scar, but the swelling is what shocked me. It was swollen, shiny, red, and of course, the incision looks hideous. The upper half of my stomach looked much better, but the lower half looked worse. I didn’t know what to expect after the surgery, and when I removed my bandage, what I saw scared and discouraged me. What caught me a little off guard was the emotional “funk” I experienced. ![]() I did laundry, cooked, and even drove on day 4 (though I don’t recommend doing that). The pain was minimal (after the first day) and was moving around every day. I figured I would be in extreme pain, and that I wouldn’t be moving around much, but that wasn’t the case. I wanted to share my week one tummy tuck experience with you because I know you are dying to see some pictures. ![]()
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