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Tummy Tuck in Ohio: Flatter Tummy - What can be done to reduce the pain after a tummy tuck surgery?
Tummy tuck surgery can be one of the more painful cosmetic procedures performed by plastic surgeons. The overwhelming majority of the discomfort comes from the muscle-tightening portion of the procedure, not the skin incision as most people believe. This is evidenced by the fact that most patients who undergo tummy tuck surgery and skip the muscle-repair portion of the procedure have relatively little pain after surgery.
One technique designed to reduce pain after surgery is the insertion of pain pumps. These pumps are connected to small tubes which go through the skin with their ends positioned in the area of surgery over the muscles. The reservoir is filled with local anesthetic which is pumped through the tubes at various intervals to reduce pain sensation. Some disadvantages of these pain pumps include a variable response in some patients, the increase in cost (around $300) of the procedure, occasional malfunction of the pump and the potential increase in the risk of infection.
Another technique which Dr. McMahan has found to be more reliable that pain pumps is the use of tumescent fluid at the time of surgery. Tumescent fluid is a very dilute concentration of local anesthesia which is infiltrated into the area of surgery to deaden the sensory nerves both during and after surgery. As a result of this numbing effect, patients receive less narcotic from the anesthesiologist during surgery and in the recovery room which helps to reduce the incidence of nausea and vomiting after surgery. Patients who have had a tumescent tummy tuck generally have much less pain after surgery and, therefore, take much less pain medication after surgery and experience less nausea and fewer problems with constipation which is associated with the use of narcotic pain pills.
One technique designed to reduce pain after surgery is the insertion of pain pumps. These pumps are connected to small tubes which go through the skin with their ends positioned in the area of surgery over the muscles. The reservoir is filled with local anesthetic which is pumped through the tubes at various intervals to reduce pain sensation. Some disadvantages of these pain pumps include a variable response in some patients, the increase in cost (around $300) of the procedure, occasional malfunction of the pump and the potential increase in the risk of infection.
Another technique which Dr. McMahan has found to be more reliable that pain pumps is the use of tumescent fluid at the time of surgery. Tumescent fluid is a very dilute concentration of local anesthesia which is infiltrated into the area of surgery to deaden the sensory nerves both during and after surgery. As a result of this numbing effect, patients receive less narcotic from the anesthesiologist during surgery and in the recovery room which helps to reduce the incidence of nausea and vomiting after surgery. Patients who have had a tumescent tummy tuck generally have much less pain after surgery and, therefore, take much less pain medication after surgery and experience less nausea and fewer problems with constipation which is associated with the use of narcotic pain pills.
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