Significant changes in weight can diminish your results. If you are planning substantial weight loss or are considering future pregnancies, you may be advised to postpone a tummy tuck. What should I expect at my appointment? At your first consultation, Dr. Guarda, will evaluate you and learn what you want to achieve with your tummy tuck / abdominal contouring. She will explain how she can help improve your shape, share your options and recommend a course of treatment to meet your goals.Hence, patients have to undergo considerable recovery periods. Because of its nature, tummy tucks are not devoid of the medical complications seen in surgery. Hemorrhage, infection and pulmonary embolism are just some of the common complications seen in any type of surgery. Scars are usually seen in the target area. This could be as big as a line that stretches from the abdomen to the pubic area. Modern tummy tuck procedures however, have minimized scars.
The “Diver Test” is a physical examination test to study the stomach area and its fat content. The person bends over at the waist about 30-40 degrees. The abdominal skin and fat are grabbed to assess the skin and fat excess. You can “pinch” the skin to see the fat amount. But now, do this a second time when you tighten your abdominal muscles. The tight muscles push the inside fat internally so we grab only the external or outside fat.
Loss of the internal fat has been shown to give benefits with cholesterol, blood pressure, and heart risks. The hardest fat to lose is the external fat, outside fat, or subcutaneous fat. The outside fat tends to be more resistant to exercise and weight loss. From a medical perspective, it’s good that the intra-abdominal fat or central fat is lost first, because this is the fat that is more dangerous to our health.
My California girl patients are athletic (keeping them from exercising is tough). If you are active, you will be hard on my repair. Suture and scar are never as strong as your original tissue. So the muscle tightening is important. You may think, “I carried low.” “My upper belly doesn’t look so bad.” “Why would I need to tighten the upper belly?
1- What is this inside or internal fat, and does it have health implications? People tend to gain or collect fat in different locations. As we age or gain weight, fat tends to accumulate in different parts of our body. Some people are pear shaped and collect fat in the hips, love handles, thighs, and flanks. This is subcutaneous or outside fat.
A suctioning instrument is then inserted to remove fat deposits in the area. Incisions are usually small and do not require skin removal. Stitches are used to close the wound and allowed to heal naturally. Skin reverts to its original condition and elasticity. Tummy tucks are surgical procedures that require anesthesia and incisions.
I finally decided to discuss my chronic pain with my internist and when I told him of my stomach operation, gallbladder, appendix and finally a tummy tuck, he began to nod. Indeed the tummy tuck could be the cause of my pain all these years. The damaged nerves were being covered by a healing process, this in turn was causing my chronic pain to my lower pelvic area. Now I need to discover what I can do to relieve the pain. Your condition sounds similar to that of another woman who wrote in. You can find what she had to say here.. Pain In Stomach 1 Year After Tummy Tuck.
But before you schedule an appointment, let us first take a look into both medical procedures. Although liposuction has been around for awhile, tummy tucks were originally the medical procedure of choice when removing stubborn abdominal fat deposits. Also referred to as abdominoplasty, this is a surgical procedure that also requires the use of general anesthesia.
