Losing Weight post plastics

A couple of you mentioned complications after your lbl...I ed just wondering if there is anything you did that caused it or if there was anything you could have done to avoid it?


Thanks!

I believe my complications could have been avoided if my surgeon was more responsive to my calls about fevers, swelling, redness and increased pain beginning the night I was discharged from the hospital.  Instead, those concerns were dismissed for over a wee****il my incision started coming open to allow infection to seep out...  I ended up going to the ER and my PCP to get help, but by that point, it was too late.

My only complication was a small opening at the top of my butt crack. It's an area of high tension and an opening there is common. It closed on its on in a few weeks, maybe a month, but it didn't hurt. The only thing my doc recommended was to increase vitamin C. I seriously increased my protein intake to promote healing. 

The general idea is that there are ways to decrease risks of complications, but I do not think anything I did or did not do mattered. And my surgeon followed all the standard preventaive measures.  I think that these things happen sometimes due to our own body trying to heal. Like my openings that keep happening, I can see the stitches coming out, that should have just dissolved for most people. The seroma also is because my body not reabsorbing fluid fast enough.

5weeks post op.  6 lbs of skin removed and only 9lbs down total.  First 3 weeks I had no appetite.  It's back o normal.  Trying to drink more water because I've swollen with work and humidity.