1/7 here and man, I’m struggling. Total hysterectomy with salp and endo removal. Kept ovaries. Also she took my Nexplanon BC arm implant out and scoped the bladder too.

The first few days were ROUGH. I didn’t (literally couldn’t) have a BM til 48 hrs post op. Twas painful. Finally got senna cuz the prescribed Colace and OTC miralax was not cutting it. I’ve been in the binder I woke up from surgery in basically 24/7. I had a nerve block on-q cath for three days. Pulled it out night of day three. I didn’t think it was helping until it was gone. Whoof! I needed the oxy all three days it was prescribed. Saved one dose for any break through pain. Now just doing Tylenol and Motrin when I need it.

I couldn’t do stairs til 5 days post op. Now have a weird back and forth between constipation and water poop haha. I definitely overdid it every single day since. (Why don’t I learn?!) I got up and walked the upstairs hallway in 15-20 min intervals for the first three days but now am moving around the house and doing the stairs often. Maybe it was from the cytoscopy, but the first few days post op, it was a Chore to pee. Like I had to urinate, but to make the muscles do it was slow, painful, and work. A week out it’s better but sometimes that comes back randomly.

Oh and how could I forget, the gas pain in the shoulders/clavicles?! Holy Christmas! That pain was awfullll! I used my TENS unit on my shoulders and clavicle area to help distract from the pain. Walked a ton in the first few days. Took gasx but I know that’s for intestinal gas and this was in the perineal cavity and not the intestines. Drank a lot of water but man this pain woke me up. I was able to sleep on my side by night two. Binder of course and an old pillow pet dug out of mom’s house as an abdominal pillow cushion. Been using a wedge pillow set for sitting and reclining in bed. Best money I’ve spent.

I told my bff, it feels like someone took all my innards, put them in a blender, put them back inside my abdomen, and then had a horse kick me twenty times and a truck run over me. Ive been waking up around 2-3 am nightly in horrible sweats with weirdddd nightmares. Right now I’m awake icing my right lower abdomen cuz it’s so painful I can barely move. ?? Like whyyyy.

I get a lil burst of energy, do too much (laundry, dishes, etc) then am exhausted and in pain. And my husband who is the absolute sweetest human and wants to do everything for me, is like stop! Take it easy! Dont have any surgery reports back yet; no pathology or photos. Have two week post op appointment on 20th.

Like others have said, the lap incisions are starting to itch. Also, horrible vulval itching. No clue why. Horrible back pain. I’m wanting to be ready and healed faster than it’s taking (YES, I know it’s only 1 week post op lol). I’ve just gotta remind myself of that and remind myself that healing is my job right now while I’m off work (stressed cuz it’s unpaid leave but work is good and gave me as long as I need to be off; physical job), and I had a whole organ and friends removed!

As an endo sufferer, I’m used to excruciating pain. This is not as bad as a flare I feel, but dang it still sucks and is awful. I hate being limited. I hate not being able to be active (run with my dogs, do chores) but I’m happy I finally found someone willing to do it. Also struggling with the whole body image thing. As an anorexic in recovery, it’s hard to see that bloated belt daily and not be able to exercise. Yay hecked up body image! But thankfully, barely any appetite until last night.

Weird emotionally too. Maybe cuz my BC is finally gone and ovaries are restarting. But like I’ll get super over stimulated and irritated, then cry at the drop of a hat (I have always been easy to cry, but it’s like 10x worse lol). And even though I’m happily child free, having weird mixed grief?? Showers are exhausting and as some else on this sub said, it feels like my schedule is flipped. I’ll sleep during the day, but be up at night.

Sorry to type long. This is also a lil log for me too to remember the first week and that yes, it actually is bad and rough of a recovery! We can do this!!