Day 4 post op really didn’t amount to much, so that’s why I’m combining the post op updates into one post. Do you want to know what I did on day 4 post op? Laid up in bed and binge watched Homeland and slept. Pretty exciting, isn’t it?
However, through the day I could feel my stomach getting ready for the Great Day 5 Swelling. There was definite swelling going on and the entire liposuctioned area was getting a lot more tender. Even the Tramadol wasn’t doing much to cut through the pain so I had a pretty rough night.
Needless to say, Day 5 post op felt like I had half of an inflated basketball full of gravel stuck to my stomach. I’ve never been pregnant, but trying to wipe myself after peeing was a distinct challenge since I had to squat and reach under the belly to try to clean up (a little TMI but as I’ve said before, I don’t sugar coat stuff). I’m sure sitting down looks like I’m about 6 months pregnant and when the edge of my stomach hits my thighs because I wasn’t slow enough, OMFG does that hurt.
So its safe to say that day 5 post op after stomach liposuction didn’t disappoint, it’s big, painful and swollen and I had to make the 1.5 hour drive to Rijswijk for an in person check up with my surgeon.
The drive was uneventful, I was pretty sleepy from the Tramadol. After a struggle with my compression suit (there’s little hooks on the straps that hook on the fabric tab in between my boobs that keep getting stuck) my surgeon took a look at the wounds (the bottom 2 have been declared officially closed) and the edges of where the liposuction took place. He was pretty happy with the progress and after 15 minutes I was back on the road home. That’s the only downside of this whole thing, driving 3 hours round trip for a 15 minute visit. It has to happen, but still just kind of sucks.
After getting home, I went back up to bed to take a nap and watch TV. In fact, the drive wore me out so badly, I didn’t get out of bed except to go to the toilet the rest of the day and night. I just didn’t have the energy or inclination. It’s not really the surgery itself that makes me feel this way, it’s more the Tramadol slowing me down. It’s probably not a horrible thing, keeping things low key and being forced to rest a lot, but it still makes me feel really lazy knowing that with all the other surgeries I’d been to the gym at least 3 times by day 5, two of the times for a session with my trainer.
On the other hand, with this being as major as it was, I know that resting will only make things better. And this is why I’ve been hitting the gym so hard, because I knew that there would be a point where I wasn’t going to make it for 2-4 weeks.
I just hope I can get some work in this coming week.
PetraAnn
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how old are you, where did youbgo forvthis syrgery. im in Ct. need to go to New york Cut, or Delaware for anybliposuction. now is WAL or TUMESCENT the better surgery.
Please check out my answers in this post: http://www.whatislipedema.com/liposuction-questions/info-about-myself-and-my-surgery/