My Hemorrhoidectomy Journey (Part 4)

Hello everyone!

My name is Michelle and welcome to Part 4 of My Hemorrhoidectomy Journey! Please feel free to read parts 1, 2, & 3 to see how I have arrived to this point and why. Thanks in advance for reading my posts. Any comments/feedbacks is greatly appreciated as well.

So, it's very late as I write this. You can say I'm at the end of POD #1, but it's past midnight here, so I guess the very early beginning of POD #2 now? Anyways, it's past midnight and officially Saturday, April 29, 2017 and so happy to say that it's officially my oldest son's bday who is turning 8. Won't be able to do anything with him today for his bday, and glad he's understanding of that, so thankfully my sis in law going to take him out for a bit, and anyways, we will be celebrating his bday & the rest of the kiddos' bday on the 27th of next month

Now back to topic, less than 48 hours ago, I had my Hemorrhoidectomy. Yay, lol...let me start by saying no fun at all, but saw it coming anyways.

So, shortly after kiddos left to school, got to the hospital with my husband at around 10:25am. They quickly got me into a gown & bed. Some paperwork, questions, took vitals, started iv, talked to my surgeon, then to anesthesia dr, and at around 12:15, they took me to operating room. Everyone was indeed very nice, and by the time I knew it, I was waking up in recovery room with pain in my rectum. I was just thinking, OMG, really?? The pain already so soon? Lol...

So, I noticed my blood pressure was pretty low..in low 80s/50s, and had the BP machine checking my BP every 3 min or so. Gradually went up, and had me in recovery room for about 2 hrs before being discharged. Back to pain, it gradually got worse as minutes ticked by, and finally got the urge to ask nurse for pain med. She injected pain med into iv and quickly worked, but made me very dizzy and felt more week but at least pain had gone down a lot.

After discharge, we got home. On the way home, every speed bump or sudden stop or whatever hurt. Just tried to sit on side, not on rectum. My mom, brother & Baby sis and my kiddos were all at my house, everyone very supportive. Layed down on couch with stomach faced down. Felt very nauseated, and pain was gradually coming back again. Eventually, my mom, brother & sister left, and husband picked up prescribed meds from pharmacy. Laxatives and hydrocodone.

Will only take hydrocodone when pain gets too bad along with one or two laxatives to try to prevent constipation.

Last night, I started taking the hydrocodone every 4-6 hrs along with the stool softeners. Also, something that I wanted to point out is that right after surgery, I felt my vaginal part very numb. At first, it felt very hard to pee. Also, the day of surgery, I continued to stick to liquids only diet...you know, water, jello, and soup broth with just a tad bit of veggies. Walking has been pretty tough especially when there's pain, so I have tried to avoid walking as much as I could on surgery day plus the bleeding on the day after surgery seemed normal, not too bad, just ok.

Post Operation Day (POD) #1 - April 28:

Woke up, took levothyroxine med as usual, then about an hr later, a hydrocodone. Husband left to work, but left me prepared with everything, chicken broth soup, some jello, ice pack, and the meds, well, already had them ready by my bedside prior to surgery. I was able to keep pain at a tolerable level I'm sure thanks to the hydrocodone. Like I said, every time I take one of those, I also take 1 or even 2 stool softeners. I tried to sleep during the day, but when kiddos were home from school, that was a no no. I felt the urge several times throughout the day to have a BM, but never happened. Everytime I would go to bathroom, I would just urinate and maybe pass a small bit of gas, that's about it. I have to say that I'm nervous about my first bm.post surgery...I feel that the worse is yet to come in that aspect. Have kept it clean...always change my pads and even though there has been no bm, I still gently clean with wipies. The bleeding was much less during day, but for some reason, I started bleeding more during the evening hours. I have not just been in bed all day, but have been walking some around the house especially when pain is calm. And just been walking like a penguin. Could be walking around often so soon post surgery be a cause for more bleeding down there? Just wondering. Will see how it goes later and the next few days. But yeah, that's how POD #1 went. I assume worse is yet to come since there hasn't been a BM yet..oh joy, heheheh.

Oh yeah, before I forget, this is what Dr did to me on surgery day: She cut off the biggest hem (excisional), and banded the 2 smaller ones. Perhaps that may be the reason for the numbness/pressure I felt? Well, the numbness has worn off, but now there's just this pressure close to vaginal area that even hurts a bit or feels weird when I pee. And I guess the 2 banded ones will fall off in a few days, right? Wonder if that will also be painful.

So, that's it for now. I do plan to start eating some solids again..strictly fiber, on either Sunday or Monday. Will post Part 5 in a couple days or so to update all of you on how the following days post surgery go for me. Any questions/comments/feedback is always greatly appreciated! Thanks again, God Bless & Take care

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