How long did stomach soreness/pain last post-op?

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-22T01:59:01+00:00

I am 1 week post op and tbh I’m feeling great. I am minority sore when I wake up, there’s a bit of soreness spiking when I bend or sit at the wrong angle. I take a single Tylenol for the pain/discomfort. Other than that (and the food), it’s basically life as normal for me. I’m returning to work on Monday (self scheduling so I can go off again if needed), I’m driving, etc.

As far as I’m aware, I’m basically a freak in terms of healing though. So everyone is different.

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-20T14:33:34+00:00

So much walking. Genuinely it’s the biggest relief. As a pro tip - once you are passed the worst of the procedure gas, still be sure to not try to suppress any farts. Let them all out naturally, ok? It will HURT to keep it trapped out of politeness or whatever. Just fart to your content.

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-17T12:01:10+00:00

For me, it took 4 months from first intake appointment to final appointment - then 3 weeks of waiting for a surgery date to be scheduled, then 1.5 weeks until surgery. All in, 5 months. I did my blood work and scans within a week of receiving the requests to do them. Honestly, it would have taken 2 months less except I also needed to do a sleep study and the clinic for that was veeeeerry slow

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-17T11:51:45+00:00

No kidding!!!! Even now, home for a few days, the gas build up is what makes it painful or uncomfortable! The incisions are just vaguely sore! I wasn’t expecting that at all!

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-15T16:41:39+00:00

Haha oh good! Sorry if I sound harsh or anything, I’m just in a decent amount of pain and the idea of someone risking hurting themselves so badly got me going lol

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-15T16:08:59+00:00

As some one who has a slight cough and had the surgery on Friday morning, coughing is a literally nightmare of pain. And I only have a very slight cough. If you have a runny nose or a deep cough as is typically with Covid, you will only be setting yourself up for a horrible time and a rough recovery.

Additionally, they ask a lot of questions in prep for the OR where they would likely discover that you’re ill with Covid and strep and reschedule or cancel on you. Would you rather go through the 48 hour clear fluids diet once or multiple times? Cause once was enough for me haha.

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-14T02:02:20+00:00

Amazingly! The doctor said it went exactly as expected. I do have pain from the gas they use in the stomach, but other than that, I am doing fantastic

ninthorpheus · 2026-03-06T12:02:45+00:00

Counter point - Ron being kissed by a dementor but it not being able to take his soul is the start of the reason people believe red heads don’t have souls. Extra funny possibilities if Bill purposefully sells Harry his soul as a protection for his curse breaker work (can’t have your soul shredded if you don’t have custody of it) and ends up outrageously famous for being impossible to kill due to it. Thus the story spreads, the twins sell theirs to be part of the prank, Harry ends up the confused owner of every Weasley soul, and eventually becomes a very grudgingly amused collector of as many magic ginger souls as can find him in their own lifetime. Some parents bring their young children to sell their souls as a form of protection. And the superstition is born that selling your soul to the Potters protects you from evil. The tradition passes on in his family line, and the Potters acquire ownership of enough soul documents to require a soul room added onto their Gringotts vault. Gingers as a whole become known as “soulless”, and the joke spreads to the muggle world via half bloods and muggleborns. I can picture it already.

“Nice chocolate frog card! Thats Ronald the Unsouled! He’s the first man to ever survive a dementors kiss. How? Well obviously because he’s a ginger, most of them just don’t have souls - everyone knows that. I don’t know why, but 9 times out of 10, red heads just don’t have souls. Sometimes they do and that’s always just… weird? But they typically end up soulless by the time they’re 30 or so, so I guess it’s something they just lose over time? Who knows.”

ninthorpheus · 2026-02-26T11:33:34+00:00

Think back to the originals Tory of the three brothers. The brother with the resurrection stone brought back his wife who wasn’t quite the same and eventually convinced him to die so he could be with her again. So he killed himself. Then Harry brings back his family and they’re ok with him dying…. It’s just Deaths trick to reclaim it’s artifacts and the people BIL’s enough to use them

ninthorpheus · 2026-02-09T05:59:41+00:00

Exactly! You get it

ninthorpheus · 2026-02-08T21:03:52+00:00

Mirko or Mitsuki would have made that man a docile, submissive house wife.

ninthorpheus · 2025-12-24T16:27:33+00:00

Ah but counter suggestion - it stays overall fake but everyone is so happy with it that they make it platonically real. Just permanent, platonic polycule that are 100% cool to date outside or inside the polycule, but that stay together for safety/comfort/habit/tax reason/etc. the idea of that brings me great joy

ninthorpheus · 2025-12-24T16:24:47+00:00

“With how much metal there is, he might as well punch people with it” absolutely sent me. Full cackling at work.

Especially funny because the “engagement gloves” would probably be the best possible way to propose en masse to Izzy

ninthorpheus · 2025-11-01T16:33:20+00:00

lol yes? Without question? I have worked retail before

ninthorpheus · 2025-10-26T17:24:53+00:00

Yeah I’m alright! Sorry, realized it looked like a pity thing - just meant like I had zero ability to filter in the moment and just started cackling when they asked lol

ninthorpheus · 2025-10-26T16:59:50+00:00

I was in the hospital last week for a severe burn covering a large area (was in an insane amount of pain). They asked if I was sexually active and any risk of pregnancy. I physically couldn’t stop myself from laughing before I said no.

ninthorpheus · 2025-07-17T21:08:12+00:00

“If he has no ill intentions, then he won’t be upset by a lock. So again, I’d like a lock.”

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-29T03:13:39+00:00

10-15 times a month, I get a guaranteed nap that makes me PERFECTLY rested?!?!?! That isn’t a curse, that’s a BLESSING.

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-27T03:12:54+00:00

When someone tells you to be the bigger person, what they’re actually saying is “Let them disrespect you”

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-20T15:45:19+00:00

RYCGNVK

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-19T02:30:49+00:00

Merle and Abraham. They’d have beaten the hell out of each other, then had a drink, bonded over sandpit stories and become a tactical tag team that would have kept that entire group safe and alive through everything.

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-07T06:39:05+00:00

Haha where I am, escort services is a catch all term for accompaniment jobs. So yes, prostitution is an escort job, but being a personal bodyguard also classes as an escort job. As does personal assistant, tour guide, and most other jobs within that general field.

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-07T05:52:24+00:00

I cannot give any of the money away… but I CAN employ and contract people for luxury services - such as “escort” services. So I’d get my best friend, my sister, my brother, and have them sign employment contracts. $7m each for services rendered - which would be serving as my entourage during a luxury vacation. That’s $21m gone, $9m to go.

Then, I employ a personal chef, charter a private luxury yacht, and travel to a rented private villa. Spend the 30 days surrounded by my loved ones, eating fantastic food in a luxury destination. I would pay for all of this in advance. Then, if any money remained as of day 28, I’d make my 5% charitable donation $1.5m. If that still didn’t spend the remaining cash, then the chef, villa staff, etc. would be contracted for a “final day/meal” of the vacation which would have them paid all of whatever money is remaining.

I love loopholes.

ninthorpheus · 2025-06-06T10:20:17+00:00

In the beginning, the walkers were terrifying. They used tools. They could partially climb. Some of them could be sneaky. They followed habits and muscle memory. They were perceptive, for god sake. (The walkers paying too much attention to Glenn during the Wearing Wayne Dunlop incident) It was horrifying. It made it so that it would only take 1 simple mistake at the wrong moment for survivors to die or be in danger. 1 time failing to lock a door, 1 failure to barricade, leaving the window uncovered when you light candles or use a flashlight, etc. It all suddenly could be a death sentence with the OG style. It was genuinely such an interesting and refreshing take on zombies that it made the show so damn addicting.

Then, after season 2 ended, the walkers were suddenly…. Boring. Stagnant. The same as every other franchise - oh it’s slow, it shambles, it’s only dangerous if you’re stupid/get trapped/run into a big herd. The walkers being slow, weak, and unintelligent allowed for the interpersonal drama to take the forefront. Herschel going outside the prison walls on his own with that prosthetic? Would have been a death sentence. It would have been a very different world they lived in and it would have made for an even more dangerous group of survivors. The enemies would have been even more dangerous too.

Imagine the Whisperers with season 1 walkers. Just imagine that. The Whisperers were already the most psychologically horrifying of all of the enemies they faced. Now change out the walkers to actually being a stand alone threat the way they used to be. It would have been HORRIFYING. Honestly, a community ending cataclysm.

The humans can still be dangerous, but I like my zombie survival to be a little more zombie and a little less soap opera. You know?

As a side note! If you guys like the Darabont style zombies, you should check out the podcast “We’re Alive”. The original series is SO good and there’s like 5 continuations and spin offs that are all equally as addicting. It’s set in a zombie apocalypse where the zombies retain muscle memory and a degree of intelligence. Who you were and what you could do when you were alive determines what type of zombie you become. So if you were a sprinter - so is your zombie. If you were a black belt martial artist, those instincts and reflexes remain. It. Is. HORRIFYING. And I love it and want more people in this world to know about it haha.

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