I had a c section 2 months ago, I still have some weight to lose but it’s clear to me that the incision is not going to look ‘right’ even once I’ve lost the weight. It’s like the surgeon pinched the skin too much and basically stitched me up way too tight so I have a major over hang / the scar is indented with a fold of skin over the top of it. It is really uncomfortable as the waist band of my pants keep getting caught in the weird indented bit.
I feel really annoyed because I’m my opinion it was probably caused by bad stitching up rather than it being an unavoidable side effect of the surgery. It’s my second c section and I didn’t have this the first time round. According to my google searches the only way to fix it would be to have a tummy tuck which is cosmetic and therefore not available on nhs or under my health insurance.
Is this one of those situations in which women are expected to put up with damage through childbirth as if it’s normal? It makes me really angry because I feel like if this had happened after any other type of surgery I’d be offered some means of surgically fixing what is essentially an undesirable but fixable outcome of necessary surgery.
I really don’t want to have another operation. Is there anything non surgical that I could do to fix this - I feel so uncomfortable with it and quite disfigured. Every time I go from sitting to standing and vice versa it catches in my waistband so I’ve had to start wearing granny pants which come up over my belly button.