Burning stabbing feeling 10 months after tummy tuck

Kimberlin Katayama
on 8/27/11 1:04 pm - CA
Hey everyone! Im looking to see if I can find anyone who has this issue. 10 months ago I had a tummy tuck and breast implants at the same time. Since my tummy I have had pain along my pubic line up into the stomach muscle. I had three seromas and one infection during the first few weeks after surgery. Now Im all healed but still having that burning stabbing sensation and sometimes a lump forms under the incisions. My pubic area is always sore. No bruising or redness just feels bruised constantly. Any thoughts?
Mary Catherine
on 8/27/11 5:09 pm
 Sounds like some type of internal inflammation or infection.  Check with a doctor.  Did you have drains and for how long?
martitalinda
on 8/27/11 11:48 pm
 Contact your plastic surgeon and bring this to his/her attention right away.... I too developed seromas and hematomas after my drains were removed and they were in for over 5 weeks ... I would definitely have it checked out ... 

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Kimberlin Katayama
on 8/28/11 2:28 am - CA
Ive had this pain since the very first day after surgery. Ive just been hoping that it was tight muscles and not anything really wrong. I could deal with the pain if its still healing but now Im starting to wonder if there is something wrong. My surgeon is over an hour away while I know its not an excuse not to go its just so inconvienent to go all the way there. I was hoping someone would say it was normal this far out. But so far no one has said that lol the bumps come and go, the muscle sometimes protrudes out, but the pain of the burning stabbing bruising is always there. I had an infection just after the surgery according to a culture done on some of the fluid from the seroma, and was given antibiotics, I felt fine after that and didnt have any issues. I had 5 drain tubes in total because my seromas kept opening at the incision site. The other issue I has is that in my breast aumentation 2 months after I developed capsular constriction which needed a follow up surgery and $2000 more dollars - needless to say that while I think my surgeon is a good one - im a little over having complications and my insurance covers nothing of the sorts - complications or not.

I had 5 drains in all - 4 straight out of surgery then after having those removed about 2 weeks post op I had to have the 5th one placed a week later because I had a massive seroma burst through the incision that one stayed in for about 2 weeks. I had small seromas up until about 7 weeks or so out.
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