14 Days Post Abdominoplasty And Double Mastectomy

Andy,

Sorry for the delay in responding. Recently I have been receiving hundreds of spam emails per day and your email got lost in the mix.

Thanks for telling of your experience.

Hopefully by now your fluid build up is under control.

I have never been uncomfortable with my compression garment. No pain at all associated with it. Most likely because I was numb for a long time.

I will have to look into that "Arginaid Extra". I receive a lot of requests about how patients can speed up the healing process.

Good luck in the rest of your recovery.

Tanner

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Follow-up Messages

Message - Thanks Tanner. I'm impressed you take this site so professionally, clearly it is a bit of an unknown and your site is a great resource. An update, The fluid continues to be a pest, last aspiration was 850ml on Friday and today Monday is back bigger than ever. No holidays here tomorrow and I should be able to get in to see my doctor and get emptied again!

Response - Andy, How are your surgical drains doing (assuming you have them)? Are they slowing down or have they been removed? I was aspirated twice after my drains were removed. The fist time he sucked out a lot of fluid. The second time he tried, but came up dry. Tanner

Message - Hi again, my drains were removed by day six when I was in hospital, there was 100ml a day. I'm 21 days post op today. The aspirations have been since leaving hospital. The most recent one did freak me out due to the volume being almost a litre. My PS is away on holiday and his back up is not returning calls (probably holidays as well!) so I had to resort to my GP And have found an radiologist who will do the aspiration with a referral from my GP- it's complicated and a layer of stress and running around that is unnecessary just now. I'm back at work in a week, how did you go getting back into a routine?

Response - Andy,

If you mean how did I go about getting back into an exercise routine, the simple answer is "very slowly".

I mostly used light dumbbells for arm exercises and also did some stretches. I exercised for about an hour each day and I used extreme care not to do any exercise that would pull, tug or stretch my midsection area. No fast movements, just slow and deliberate motions.

But, if I were you I would hold off on any physical exercise until the draining problem is resolved, especially since you can't contact your surgeon at the present. Too much exercise may aggravate the problem and slow your recovery. Hopefully you don't have too much of a physical type job.

I can imagine you being freaked out at all the fluid sucked out. I didn't have that much and I was surprised. It just kept coming and coming.

If you meant how did I go about getting back into a work routine, I didn't have a problem because I work from my computer at home. Other people who go to the office or have more physical type work just try to take it easy and slow until their stamina builds back up. Lots of frequent rests and breaks if possible.

Tanner

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