Lifestyle Choices

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. (more…)

Stomachs very commonly sag after pregnancy, sometimes after one, certainly after several. They also sag as we age or after significant weight gain followed by significant weight loss. Abdominal surgery of various kinds may often leave the stomach muscles slack and the skin covering flabby. Whatever the cause, the effects are very commonly distressing. In western culture, a flat stomach is perhaps too much prized and admired but prized and admired it is, if more by women than by men. Abdominoplasty, surgery to reduce the stomach, restores muscle tone and smooth stomach appearance. The cost, however, inevitably, is extensive scarring. (more…)