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How long to post-op check ?

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Mari88
Mari88

My check up is not until 4 months after the op. This isn't a waiting list or scheduling delay - I heard the registrar ask for this (20 weeks) both just before I went in and to the SHO during my discharge check.  It is also on my discharge notes that I have and my GP commented on it when I went to her with what turned out to be thrush. Weirdly, for someone who tends to ask lots of questions, I didn't query this at the time. The appointment came through within a few days of returning home.

The procedure was enterocele, rectocele and perineal reinforcement.

Last year I had a cystocele repair and the post op check for that was 6 weeks.

i am not unhappy at avoiding an internal exam for awhile, but just wondered what others think this long delay is about ? 

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  • Melons08746
    Melons08746 Mari88

    Posted

    I had the same as you and my original post op check was 12 weeks but went last week at week 10 (as having a few problems ) but I personally wouldn't worry about going at 4mths post op as at least you will be a lot more healed and the examination will be a lot less uncomfortable

    • Mari88
      Mari88 Melons08746

      Posted

      I am not worried -  I am thinking that this means I  can have a more thorough and comfortable examination than an earlier one, so am actually quite pleased about it.  It was just that    this was the longest  deliberate gap I have seen mentioned on here. Interesting to see that yours was also longer than the standard 6 weeks. 
    • JoolsB
      JoolsB Mari88

      Posted

      Positive thinking!! Just make sure he acutally does examine you is what I am saying. Good luck.
    • Melons08746
      Melons08746 Mari88

      Posted

      I couldn't have contemplated being examined at 6 weeks it was bad enough at 10 weeks but my consultant leaves everybody 12 weeks as that's how long the stitches need to disolve

    • Mari88
      Mari88 Melons08746

      Posted

      They did make a point of saying that I had a lot of stitches for this, much more than last time, so maybe this is the clue - time for the stitches to dissolve and the supportive scar tissue to form. 
    • Mari88
      Mari88

      Posted

      Also  - they think the enterocele - which was only found in theatre - was the cause of my symptoms, not so much the rectocele, so maybe that is another  factor out of the norm. 
  • JoolsB
    JoolsB Mari88

    Posted

    I had a rectocele and vaginal vault repair a year ago last week. I had to wait 16 weeks for a check up with my consultant. I was so annoyed and tried everything to bring it forward - especially as on this Forum so many people were being seen after 6 weeks! But it was to no avail. I had surgery in the June, check up mid October and when I say check up, I mean he asked me how I was and didn't give me an internal!! I should have made more fuss at the time but sometimes you are just too shocked to insist. Ten months later I was back at the hospital having more treatment as I hadn't healed properly! I required cauterisation and had to refrain from sex for yet another 2 months! Thank goodness for a patient husband! I have just been back again, this time he did a thorough check and all seems ok. Moral of this story - make a fuss if not happy!

    • Mari88
      Mari88 JoolsB

      Posted

      Oh, indeed  - this second procedure, in which they finally discovered the enterocele was the result of me making a polite, reasoned but determined fuss ! 
  • SMM103
    SMM103 Mari88

    Posted

    I had my check last week at 17 weeks a+p and st. I tried to have one sooner to no avail and only got this after persisting. They discovered issues and offered further surgery, I wish this had been discovered sooner as could have been resolved... emotional turmoil, pain and further time off work and out of normal life. I had an internal two days after surgery so could have stood one at 6 weeks.
  • tilley49386
    tilley49386 Mari88

    Posted

    Hi, please don't be in a hurry for your check up. I had mine at 6 weeks and the internal hurt like hell , he was also a bit rough down there , when I complained he assured me he was doing no harm but needed to loosen the area up before resuming sex. But it hurt so much I was physically sick afterwards and so tender it was months before even considered sex. I have my 4 month check up tomorrow and am dreading it. I ached all the time internally and can feel my prolapse , even hubby can feel it when we make love which has only been in the last few days as I was so worried it would hurt, it wasn't so much painful as scary and it stung along my stitch line. I don't think it was pleasant for either of us. I think the internal broke my stitches as it was too soon for lossening things as my gyno said and that may have caused my prolapse to fail? Fingers crossed it hasn't. So please be patient and let things heal. All the best. Did you have your cystoclle by keyhole?

     

  • Lululucky
    Lululucky Mari88

    Posted

    Hi mari, I do think it's a standard thing to have post check ups around 6 weeks. My surgeon originally wanted me to see him after six weeks, then because I had perineum reconstruction, he added a three weeks check. Even though I am see you a private doctor, I don't think he wanted money out of it, he didn't even charge me for my last two visits. I would ask for a earlier check up.

  • helen73p
    helen73p Mari88

    Posted

    hi, i had my anterior repair in february with no follow up appointment, have to go to my dos tomorrow as i think my prolapse is back , totally gutted as im only 4months post op x
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