upper belly fat after abdominoplasty

I am a male had my abdominoplasty 8 years ago. My upper belly is distended and has bumps and hard near the bellt button. I have hard time buying suits as my waist is proportionally smaller to my upper body. Occasionally my stomach muscles hurt. After reading your posts it seems normal for all this symptoms to occur.

I am 10 years post TT and have never had any trouble. Then about 6 months ago I began training quite hard for a marathon and instead of losing weight and looking fit, I developed this huge distended upper abdomen. I also now have lost feeling from my breast bone down to my TT scar. I went to two doctors (not my PS) and was told that there is nothing wrong and that it is just muscle. I can only eat small amounts of food at a time or I feel horribly bloated and have a hard time breathing. It's very strange to have a flat lower tummy and now this bulge above my belly button. My weight has stayed the same all these years so weight gain is not the cause. Has anyone figured out what causes this?

I had a tummy tuck about 3 months ago... My doctor told me he would not perform liposuction on my upper stomach because of healing reasons... I guess when they liposuct your your whole stomach on top of a tummy tuck is to much trauma for the belly and by not liposucting th upper belly is giving your stomach a better healing process then if you would get lipo on the upper belly. SO, There still will be fat stored on that area, also you have to keep in ming that the upper area is smaller then the lower so when they tighten the muscles and there is is fat in the area it will make that part bulgier.
Maybe you didnt get lipo in that area???

Guest wrote:

Geez SAME HERE - and it's been about FOUR years since my tummy tuck.. Unfortunately I have gained some weight since then, but STILL - its not even like its (the upper abs) is flab - its more like...as someone else said...distended. Below the bellybutton tho is very flat, almost concave - I almost wish I could have my old stomach back - fat tho it was at least it was symmetrical - now I feel distorted. DID ANYONE GET SOME FEEDBACK ON THIS??

I had my TT 7 years ago and I was 110 lbs at that time had the TT b/c of 3 ceasearan section cut vertically and didnt like the scar. Well weight gain came along with age and my entire physical shape changed. I dont even look like myself. Right now I am at a weight that I was long ago and I think I looked much better prior to the TT. I have been working out at the gym 4 X wk for 4 years and have developed great muscles all over. If if wasnt for my upper ab bulge, which is totally embarassing what happens is that the fat gets displaced. Your fat and weight gain accumulates above your TT incision. Wow, ya think the surgeons would clue you in on that. If I would have known this I would have NEVER had the surgery, and not too mention the 2 drains scars to look at. I think the most difficult part is feeling so uncomfortable, upper abs distension, and most of the time my skin and abdomen hurt. I feel deformed and I paid a lot of $$$$$$ for that. Im concerned about this upper ab bulge fat lying over my organs, not thinking belly fat is good for over all health.

I had a TT a year ago and immediatly noticed the upper belly bulge. I do yoga and it is very uncomfortable laying on my stomach and if I eat anything it becomes even more distended...Horrible...no never like that before. Unfortunatly another thing is that my lower stomach is distended also. I can't hold my stomach in at all. It is huge like I am pregnant. My muscles have been damaged and are dead and don't hold my stomach in at all. This is only after the TT before I had great stomach muscles but loose skin from twins. Now I look very pregnant or like someone that just ate the kitchen sink and then some. Oh my back is now rounding I have to work to stand up straight.......... HORRIBLE. Back pain, and very uncomforable feeling with the abdomine area. Like you are always stuffed.
Oh my life style has diminished drastically.
Any help would be appreiciated.

tz50007 wrote:

I am a male had my abdominoplasty 8 years ago. My upper belly is distended and has bumps and hard near the bellt button. I have hard time buying suits as my waist is proportionally smaller to my upper body. Occasionally my stomach muscles hurt. After reading your posts it seems normal for all this symptoms to occur.

Mine is exactly the same symptons as yours (I'm female though) I haven't put on any weight like the other posters but have LOST weight, so the theory of dieting is not the answer. Sometimes when I'm sitting if I laugh at something, quite a hearty laugh though, then it is like an excruciating pain which can only be lulled by standing up. I'm very disappointed and wish I'd never had the TT done now (around 3 yrs ago I had the op)

I had a tt seven and a half years ago after my third child. I was 34 years old. Since then my weight fluctuated up and down appx 35 pounds. My upper stomache did not distend as much as my waistline did. Even when my weight was down my waistline wouldn't go down. I was apple shaped. Summer of 2008 I decided i would try liposuction on my waist. That went fine but now i have what everybody else here is talking about. My upper ab area is bulging and hard right above the naval. It is bulging more on the right then the left. It looks lumpy. The surgeon did do some lipo in the area above my naval because he thought it needed it. I wonder if these are fat pockets and if they will they will go away with weight loss?

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I had a tt 2.5 yrs ago and it seem like over night my stomach just blew up like a basketball. I was worrried tightness, full, not eating called my plastic surgeon she said it's nothing too do with the surgery. Why it's this happening?