Swelling question again

After your TT did your swelling feel heavy, like a bit like late stage pregnancy.  Not that I'm noticeably swelling that large, but I do feel a heaviness at times.  And itching with binders, what can I do for relief,  I'm not suppos to put lotions on yet.  Only 3 weeks out.  

Yep, feels very much like pregnancy swelling & bloating to me, all the way down to my toes.  The binder helps, and elevating my feet/legs when I lay.  Im also drinking lots of fluids to keep it moving.  Im almost 7 weeks out and still have a lot of swelling, especially at the end of the day.

Itching- Im living on Benadryl.  Its the only thing that helps even the slightest.  The itching is crazy!  Mine is from a few places- the healing incisions, the open wounds, the areas of skin that are being pulled off from any tape or dressings I have to keep using, and deep inside from the butt autoaugmentation.  Sometimes it takes everything I have not to scratch.  Massage also seems to help a bit, just light circular pressure adjacent to the itchy areas. 

for the itching what helped me was I wore a mans sleeveless tank top and put the binder over it.  If you have drains I used a lanyard or two big shoe strings tied together and slide the drains on the shoestring and put the shoestring around my neck worked like a charm no pulling or tuging.

Welcome to swell hell - week 3 is generally the worst for most patients. My swelling was all pooled into the center of my lower ab. I felt like I was carrying a bowling ball there. It was rather uncomfortable and I found that using the support garments like Flexes (I do not use compression garments) helped alot to relieve the discomfort. If it got really bad then I would wrap my hospital binder tight around the area. If you are like most patients, next week you will begin to feel much better. And at 6 weeks post op you will feel so much better.

I don't know about anyone else but my swelling last for a long time and I still get it sometimes when I bloat, the same full feeling like when you first have your tummy tuck.  It is weird.  I doubt seriously I could ever really stand to actually gain weight again as my muscles are tight and I think stretching them back out would hurt.  I don't remember being pregnant, it was so long ago, but I definately know what swelling and tightness feels like.  I would skip the lotions, you aren't supposed to put that stuff on new scars and if they itch you are allowed to slap the itch instead of itching it.