How long does it take for the muscles to heal from a liver transplant?

8 to twelve weeks: Liver transplant requires very large incisions and healing requires a minimum of 8 weeks and is often painful for a longer period. Be patient with the process.

Depends on meds: Much of the timing for recovery depends on several factors, the degree of muscle loss due to existing liver disease, degree of malnutrition, but also the nature of medications your transplant program uses for immunosuppression. Corticosteroids, rapamycin and everolimus, markedly delay recovery of wound healing and you should be careful in vigorously stressing the incision, lest a hernia develop.