More pain and misery!

Happy birthday Terri hope you feel better soon xx Rest up and listen to your body... I didn't feel up to driving until around 8 weeks I think it was we are all just so different in our recovery.  All the literature says from around 6 weeks or so I think but it's when you feel you can do an emergency stop.   Rest up and hope you feel better soon xxx

Hi Terri, not been on this forum for a while as I too experienced worst pain again at 6 weeks actually it was an internal at my six week check up that started it off or so I thought. I went back to my specialist and he asked me aload of questions and basically i had jkust got back into the swing of things way too soon. Unfortunately I had returned to work supposedly graduated return 4hrs a day but after 3 days i found that I was working more hours even more hours than I normally did just trying to catch up on the back log of work and fixing the stuff ups that others attempting my job had mistakenly created. By then  my boss was acting (and still is to some extent) as if I was 100% ok and back on board full time. So hardly surprising it all caught up with me. My specialists advised that the wounds are still healing and the stitches still tightening and thats why we can get new pains. Apparently a scar heals at 1% a day so even with best results that would be 100 days or 12 weeks. I am now stuck back working full time and try and rest up when I get home. Been back full time for 3 weeks and still exhausted most nights and it rally aches if I over do it but more importantly the new pain was gone last week and I thought I would share that with you hope it helps. If you can help it don't go back to work till at least week 8 and then hopefuly someone will have done your work while you were away. It really goes get better and I believe the ache is there to tell us to rest up when we over do it. It does get me down even now but I am still positive that all will be well and it will all be worth while. Icepack and feet up work  best  to relieve ache. As does not sitting for more than an hour at my desk before getting up and going for a cuppa, even 10 mins helps. Minding my grandson on tuesdays is a real challenge and I really ache after that. It is a long day almost 12 hrs and I do have to lift him in and out of the car seat and change table if we go outbut I cope. I have even done some gardening. My specialist showed me how to brace down there just before and during the lifts and I think this helps. Happy healing. Luv xx PS I found voltaren rapid gave me enough relief to sleep at night as the pain was mainly in my bottom.

PS forgot Hope you had a terrific birthday and were spoilt rotten xxx

Oh Happy Birthday Terri...poor you..I am 7.5 weeks post op but I literally take it one day at a time cos you just dont know how you.re gonna feel. Matron will be able to help you as soon as she reads this,I'm sure..I find driving quite difficult...causes pain on my left side...good luck...rest up!

terri how are you feeling now you've rested a bit?