Has anyone experienced muscle separation after a liver transplant?

@lsheerin, has this been confirmed by your husband's transplant team? Might there be other options?

Good Morning!
Finally got the referral to go to the new gastrologist. We have an appointment Tuesday at 1:30. I'm hopeful she will be able to give some kind of help for the muscle separation. His blood work has been perfect. Still gets it checked every other week. He also has an appointment with the transplant team on the 20th. It's a virtual visit. I'm hoping virtual is enough as we live over 2 and a half hours away. I will post what they say. Maybe it will be able to help someone else.

Isherrin..me too this year will b 5 yr since my liver transplant.and 7 most after I had hernia surgery on same site and a plastic surgeon was present in surgery he put in two sheets of mesch about a yr ago I started to have same problem it is very uncomfortable.saw my surgeon and he said same thing tummy tuck.
But the way it can b presented to ins this is not for cosmetic it is a necessity. Also any one out there who has been thru this i also developing kidney problems found out my GFR is 40 !!!! Now have to see kidney Dr.!!that bridge is looking good

I am just about 3 years post-liver transplant, and I have a similar bulge in my abdomen. I notice that it gets more pronounced after I eat. It almost looks like the bulge is in the shape of a liver - which is what I thought it was. Turns out, the bulge is actually my intestines pushing against the weakened abdominal wall. My posttransplant team explained to me that this was attributable to the surgery, that my abdominal wall was cut, and the muscle and fascia weakened. We are at higher risk of abdominal hernia as a result, and my team described my abdomen as “herniated”. My team is not concerned, as the herniation is not strangling my intestines - although should this happen, then I would need surgical repair. I feel great, exercise most every day, and unfortunately continue to have the bulge. I am careful when lifting or exercising and wear an abdominal binder when doing anything that puts stress on my abdomen. I have learned to live with my bulge, and really don’t want to undergo any additional abdominal surgery to repair it simply to look better. I have several transplant friends who somehow manage to have 6 pack abs after transplant. I never had them and certainly don’t have them post-transplant! I am so grateful to have my good health back and I won’t let the bulge change that.