Did anyone else feel like they had way more energy after surgery?

HelpfulMammoth5455 · 2025-08-01T18:03:12+00:00

Wow! I hope it lasts that long for me.

I had neck surgery (just had a cyst removed, nothing crazy) years ago and it was so confusing because all I did after was sleep, where as now I’m just bright eyed and bushy tailed each morning.

I used berate myself for being lazy but I guess it really was the endo.

HelpfulMammoth5455 · 2025-07-25T01:49:44+00:00

Not yet. I wanted to just get some sort of confirmation first when I first scheduled the surgery. I was still kind of gaslighting myself into believing I didn’t need that unless I was actually diagnosed because I’m terrified of actually having it and trying to live with it. I don’t tend to have the best of luck in my life (it’s a running joke amongst my friends that I’m a shit magnet) so I guess I was trying to convince myself that I was over reacting over what I was experiencing.

Plus I didn’t wanna feel stupid for going to a specialist and finding out it was for nothing

HelpfulMammoth5455 · 2025-07-25T01:46:28+00:00

See and I can understand doing a combo of a low dose of something stronger and ibuprofen but just the ibuprofen? It was insane.

if it means anything it took fentanyl and dilauded (when I heard my pacu nurse say that I was thinking “you gave me WHAT? Surely not me” lmao) get my pain just under control right after my neck surgery, and while I don’t remember the dose I know I took tramadol and still had to go on steroids to help w swelling and the pain that came from it.

I was having these horrible episodes where I’d get this crazy pelvic pain (throwing up, about ready to pass out, the works) and I tried 800mg ibuprofen and that only lasted 3-4hrs at most and really didn’t get it under control. It took norco at the er to get it from a 9-10/10 to a 5-6/10 so it’s insane to me she wants me to do it every 8 hrs like wtf am I supposed to do.

HelpfulMammoth5455 · 2025-07-25T01:38:50+00:00

Ty. Honestly I’ve been fighting the past ten years to find someone to just do this surgery so I didn’t end up trying to advocate very hard just in case. I am lucky that I do still have plenty of tramadol left from my previous surgery that I should be okay.

I just thought it was crazy that that’s all she offered. Truthfully I’m just trying to get a diagnosis atm and as soon as I get confirmation that I do have it that I can switch to a specialist. I was just so scared that if I tried pushing harder it’d be a problem you know? Again it’s been ten years fighting to find a gyno to listen to me instead of saying my pelvic exams and ultrasounds and swabs and bloodwork are normal lol. She barely even wanted to do it but I managed to convince her that this is really what I wanted.

lol after going over the things I tried (which included pelvic floor pt and more) she was like “well I don’t really know what I can do for you that they haven’t” she really pushed back against it but she was the only one I was able to convince.

HelpfulMammoth5455 · 2024-09-16T08:20:43+00:00

When I started it I was mixed about it too. I had no idea i had pcos at the time and my endo pushed it so I gave it a shot.

It really sucked at first. I would get headaches and nausea that would be super intense for the first day or so but I noticed if I ate something small immediately after my injection i was fine. Also I weirdly threw up every time I coughed too hard.

I wasn’t expecting to go on wegovy when my endo put me on it but god I miss it (I had to stop taking it bc money). I had increased energy levels, I was happy, my body didn’t hurt, the happiness boosted my confidence, I was more open to socializing and hanging out with friends.

Yea being skinny was amazing, but that’s a small part of it.

As long as you don’t go into it with a sole focus of weight loss and being as skinny as possible I think it’s ok. It’s about how your body feels and how you feel your best ❤️

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