Doctor Can't Remove My Tummy Tuck Surgical Drain
The following post from our
forum
is from a woman who had a tummy tuck 5 days ago. He surgeon
tried to remove her surgical drain but it wouldn't come out.
She has to have another surgery to remove it.
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Date: 02/14/2012 |
Submitted by: MomOf4 |
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Hello, first thank you for this site! There is so
much great information. I have a questions about
drain complications. I am 5 days post op for a TT
and the doc attempted to remove the jp drain in his
office today. But it got stuck. Under local, he
opened that side of my incision up to try to remove
the drain and was still unable to do it. I am now
scheduled for a quick surgery tomorrow to remove it.
Have you ever heard of such thing? I Asked him I f
he additional, though, minor procedure will now make
me create more fluid, therefore need a drain or risk
a Seroma later and he didn't think so. Thank you for
your time.
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RESPONSE
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| Date: 02/14/2012 |
Submitted by:
Tanner |
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MomOf4,
No, I have never heard of that happening to anybody
before, at least nobody has written in about it. I
also did a quick Google search and couldn't find any
info about it.
I can't understand how it could get stuck. If your
drain tube is like mine was, it's just a short piece
of plastic tubing sticking into your body with
nothing on the end of it to hold it in. It should
just slip out when gently (but firmly) pulled.
For it to get stuck, something (dried blood/waste
fluid/material or whatever) must have somehow
attached itself to the tubing and "glued" it to
another part of your body or just attached itself to
the tubing creating a clump on the tubing,
preventing it's removal.
Was it draining normally for the last 5 days?
Will the minor surgery create more fluid? If it
does, I would think that it would be minimal because
there shouldn't be that much cutting. I would also
expect your doctor to remove some built up fluid
with a syringe over the next few weeks.
Good luck on your surgery. I would love to know what
happened and how it got stuck (what the doctor
finds) after it's all over.
Tanner
Follow-up Email
Thank you so much for your quick reply. The surgeon
said that were 3 layers of stitches done at the time
of a tummy tuck. Somehow when stitching me up
initially he stitched the drain to 2 separate
stitches. He admits it's his error and was very
apologetic. Today's removal went very easily but
there is a 4 inch piece of the incision that is back
to being very sore. Luckily it sounds like this is
an isolated occurrence.
When did you find that you were able to stand
straight up again, and did you just stretch it a bit
every day till you were straight? I am only 6 days
post op now and with today's setback I think I'm
still a few days away from that. Thank you so much
for all of your help.
Virginia
Response - Virginia,
Thanks for letting me know what happened.
The thought of the drain tube being stitched in did
occur to me as a possibility, but I didn't give it
any though because it seem inconceivable. At least
your surgeon admitted it and was apologetic. I
assume that you didn't have to pay for the
additional surgery.
My ability to stand up straight won't be the same as
yours since I had skin removed all the way around my
waist (tummy tuck and lateral thigh lift). I was
standing up straight the next day. I am sure it
varies greatly with each person and their tummy tuck
operation. I can’t tell you what the average time
is.
Here are a couple of links from women who had tummy
tucks and mention standing straight. It took the
woman who had her tummy tuck in Bolivia about three
weeks before she was able to stand straight.
http://www.tummytuckformen.com/2011/12-04-cant-stand-or-walk-after-tummy-talk.html
http://www.tummytuckformen.com/2011/03-23-tummy-tuck-in-bolivia.html
By the way, I wouldn’t do any stretching until
your incisions are fully healed and then will the
approval of your doctor. Your skin will stretch
enough on it’s own doing normal daily activities.
Good luck with the rest of your recovery.
Tanner
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