Blowtorch leg pain after prolapse bladder surgery

After reading & watching information videos about my upcoming surgery, thought I was prepared....so wrong. And I didn't get any information from my DR. that was more than ok see you then. My first waking in post-op I had horrible aching in buttocks. My catheter was removed after 4 1/2 hrs, but I was in so much discomfort I couldn't urinate. So feeling the "bums rush" from the nurse, she hurriedly put a catheter back in, instructing my husband how to remove it at the hotel, because we live 3 1/2 hrs away, marking where to cut & giving him scissors...? The next morning he removed it (my hero), but I was shaking so violently & in so much pain, I couldn't pee, my bladder painfully full, we rushed to Dr.s office where they performed an ultrasound & re-cathed me. All the while I'm shaking with pain, he asks if I'm running a fever, no? But a combination of Tylenol & Ibuprophen should be fine. My surgery was on a WED, we were supposed to drive home by FRI, extending hotel stay til MONDAY possibly WED. On FRI my husband begged me to take the Vicodin he had with him, I felt like a bad patient, not following my Dr.s wishes, what about PATIENT CARE!? After the second dose, I could relax a little, still horrible trying to get out of bed. But keeping 1 pill every 4- 5 hrs in my system, allowed me the ability and desire to get out of bed 3 times the next day, and shuffle around the hotel room. My husband was surgically treated by the same Urologist 17 yrs before, and was given pain meds, no issues. I don't know if this is solely a failure of our "new" healthcare system, or the forced changes in how our physicians treat us. I'm pretty sure a family member, senator or congresswoman, would not be left with Tylenol and Ibuprophen as their only pain reliever when in that much pain. We use to rely on professional common sense, patient by patient needs. It's inhumane to have the ability to treat, but instead are punished because of those that mis-used and/or profitted from, these pain relievers. This is not to scare you if you're facing the same surgery, but may be helpful in knowing what you could experience...and did I mention the fish hook sensation in your vagina along with the blowtorch? Don't expect to be sitting much, so the 3 1/2 hr drive home terrifies me. No matter your politics, common sense in individual patient care must prevail, afterall we are the great United States....right?

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