Week 5 and the saga continues
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Five weeks and two days post op (49 years old) and I have been really good about keeping my feet up, not doing too much etc... But I am only five days away from the six week mark so I thought a nice outing with my daughter would be good for both of us. (She has been so good about staying with me and keeping me company but at 21 years old I know she has been bored out of her mind!) We went furniture and home accessory shopping [for my upcoming remarriage PinkLady. ] In any case, I would guess that spread throughout the day with eating and driving breaks mixed in, I was on my feet for a total of five hours. I felt okay until toward the end of the evening when I began to feel a bit of heaviness but not too bad. Fast forward a couple of hours after getting home...I first started to have the oddest feeling in lower abdomen...almost a cross between a tickle and an ache, very uncomfortable! Then I developed the most awful ache vaginally and felt like my insides were going to fall out. I literally went to bed applying pressure in attempt to make that feeling subside. I'm (nearly) 6 weeks in, shouldn't I have been able to handle an outing like that? It wasn't five hours straight, the breaks were mixed in. I'm feeling so discouraged right now. I'm supposed to start back to work next week.
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tlee
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val29779 tlee
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Jan999 tlee
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jane79477 tlee
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Rhona62 val29779
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I had rectocele repair and rectal plication 3.5 weeks ago and I too have that feeling of something pushing against bladder. It feels like I need to wee all the time when I don't really have a full bladder. It is uncomfortable. Somebody on here said they thought the feeling was possibly after effects of having a catheter in. I just hope the feeling goes soon. Let me know how you are doing, hope things improve. Thanks
val29779 Rhona62
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barb89646 tlee
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gill49377 tlee
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I'm 60, 3 months post op and thinking in my head that all is back to normal. However, I get the odd prickly feeling inside and because the better I feel the more I do I tend to do too much if you get my drift, so last night I took painkillers as I just felt a bit of discomfort inside and this afternoon after a bit of raking in the garden had to have a lie down for an hour. Someone mentioned earlier on in this forum about it taking 6 months to recover and I reckon they were right. Fortunately I don't have to go to work, but I certainly don't think at this stage I'd be fit to go. Rest as much as you can when you can and hopefully we'll all be 100%ish soon! Gill
Rhona62 gill49377
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Jan999 tlee
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barb89646 tlee
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rosieod1 tlee
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patsybythesea tlee
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Yes I also thought I'd be further along, but getting in and out of cars strains these muscles. ANY amount of bending, however small, pulls the interior muscles, and that's where my bane is. We bend to get in the car, to get dressed, to even do the lightest of housework, or even getting in and out of bed or the shower in my case. Keeping my knees together makes life more restricted, but the healing happens with less hindrance.
I took a wander round the supermarket, very slowly this week, no lifting, just accompanying my husband, and I spent the next two days couch bound, bleeding, and in pain. This is a much slower process at 55 than I imagine for a younger woman, even though I am extremely fit.
I now limit myself to one tiny trip per day as I also have 5 flights of stairs to get into my place, plus 2 inside it. I've also crocheted 300 flowers for charity, THAT'S how chained to the couch I am! Stay positive ladies and preferably in pyjamas as people can see you're bed bound. Aren't we lucky to have this place?
patsybythesea tlee
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barb89646 patsybythesea
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Rhona62 barb89646
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Hope you are feeling better today. I'm just over 3 weeks post op but had bad tonsillitis the week after surgery. I've felt so fed up with myself this weekend and feel very useless. My hubby is now back at work but is still doing pretty much everything. I just keep apologising to him but he's so good and says there really is no need, but you still feel bad. This site has been amazing and so helpful. Before my op I was reluctant to plan doing anything with waiting for my surgery date, but now I just keep thinking, oh what if I'm not fit enough, I even feel a bit scared about venturing too far.
But I look on here and see people saying at 12/13 weeks they are mostly back to normal so I'm trying to hold on to that and hope I feel the same.
Stay strong Barb and hopefully things will start to feel better.
barb89646 Rhona62
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rosieod1 barb89646
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patsybythesea rosieod1
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rosieod1 patsybythesea
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patsybythesea rosieod1
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yes the sea air helps a lot x
rosieod1 patsybythesea
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patsybythesea rosieod1
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We don't get hospital check ups here, unless there were complications during surgery. Our GP looks after us and mine is very good.
Bear in mind though, if you've had any infection that it takes days, even weeks off your recovery time as your body is fighting the infection instead of healing the wounds. I was told to take a week off mine as I was on antibiotics for a week.
jane79477 rosieod1
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