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Stomach Surgery Pain and recovery

You will need to stay in hospital for up to seven days and you will almost definitely need analgesics to lessen the pain. You will have bandages taped over your abdomen for at least ten days, but you will be able to remove them to bath and apply clean ones after the first couple of days. Drainage tubes will be removed after two days. You may need to have a catheter for the first two days too.

Although you won’t feel like it, you will be encouraged to walk around a bit a day after surgery. This is to lessen the risk of a deep vein thrombosis which is more likely to occur if you stay bedridden after surgery.

Your stitches will pull and you will be more comfortable, and your stitches more secure, if you sit in the day with your knees raised and sleep at night with your knees bent. You will not want to sleep on your stomach. When walking, you will probably find yourself bending forward to reduce the strain on your stitches and this is an eminently sensible response. After a week, you will be able to walk tall again.

Unless you are prepared for the expense of staying in hospital longer than three days, you should try to arrange for someone to be around at home to care for you for the rest of the first week after your surgery. You will not be able to walk much, lift much or do much of anything and you are likely to feel very tired. Don’t be heroic and overdo things. Your healing will be jeopardised.

Your stitches will be removed after ten days, unless they are the dissolving kind, along with your bandages, but you will not be ready for normal life just yet. You should ensure that you can take at the very least three weeks off work and do not consider any strenuous activity before six weeks have elapsed. That is, you can go for walks but you should not play tennis, do aerobics or go hiking. Gentle sex is acceptable after a month, athletic sex is out for six weeks as well.

Stomach Surgery Scars

You will have a scar the full length of the bikini line and a circular scar right around the navel. You may even have a scar running down vertically from the navel to the bikini line and a horizontal scar midway, where your original navel protruded.

The abdomen is one of the areas of the body that tends to scar badly, so your scar may be thick and it may be lumpy. However, you could be lucky and the scar will be much finer, but do not bank on it. Just consider this a bonus if it occurs.

Stomach Surgery Problems

Nerves may be damaged during the operation, leaving you with lessened or nil sensation for up to a year in the area that has been treated. Blood may collect around the wound, despite all the drainage tubes. This must be removed immediately. Any infection, signalled by increasing rather than decreasing pain and swelling, should be reported promptly so that it can be treated with antibiotics. If the infection is severe and has to be drained, you will have to return to hospital.

You must report any increased swelling quickly. In the worst instance, it could be caused by a blood clot or an abscess.

The extensive and unsightly scarring may be a disappointment to you. It is vital that you are aware and willing to take the risk of this. Very often, in fact, the bad scarring is so marked that a second operation is necessary after one year to reduce it a bit and to flatten the scarred area.

Stomach Surgery Advantages

Your stomach will be flat and your figure will look good in the kind of clothes that you previously might have thought you could never wear again. The positive effects of your surgery should be permanent unless you are a woman and you have more children or you put on and lose more weight, regardless of which sex you are. The long scar across your abdomen may be hidden by a bikini or panties but this cannot be guaranteed. And the scar around the new site for your navel and the old one that has been closed up may be visible above. However, if you have previously had your appendix taken out or an ovarian cyst removed, these will have disappeared along with the excess abdominal skin. You may even lose a Caesarean scar, if you have one, but less likely because it is usually too low.

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