I had my lap on May 4th and had very little if any pain with my incisions. I think I may have had a little healing pain sticking in the one incision is all for a very short time.
I guess I was so use to big incisions I don't even feel like I had surgery. I don't think I have or had any post-op healing pains.
I do still have allot of bloating, regurgitation & constipation but I had that before surgery, so I don't know if that would be anything from surgery or not. My pain & bloating is mainly in my upper abdomen under the left rib not the lower abdomen, and he said there weren't any adhesions above the belly button so it could be my hiatus hernia and ulcer causing my problems.
Sorry to hear you are having so many problems and hope it gets better for you. Movement and stretching generally made my pain worse with adhesions so I can't help you there. JEAN
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>----- Original Message -----
From: Lgapmon@aol.com
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: up all night
Was up all night last night (again). This is so weird. The pain is now significantly worse, post-op, almost as bad as it was before.
Before, though, my lower right side hurt when I moved, so I laid around like a slug with the heating pad. Now, it hurts more when I am still -- as long as I keep moving, it is achy but not so bad. It's almost like my body wants that area to be stretched and moved around. I could never stretch before, stretching would send me into paroxysms of pain. Being still (trying to sleep e.g.) is very very bad.
Has anyone experienced this sort of change in pain post-op? A pain that demands activity over immobility?
The Vioxx is doing just about nothing for me. Before, it made things bearable. I have visible swelling over the lower right side again, probably the ovary and/or fallopian tube being stuck to something by new adhesions. I suppose I will have to go see my PCP about stronger meds. *Sigh* I have plenty of Vicoden here but would like something that didn't knock me out -- the kids have summer activities and I spend a lot of time driving them about.
Maybe there still is a prayer things will feel better in a few more months (instead of the same or worse). My belly-button still hurts here and there from the surgery, so I know my body is not done healing yet. This much pain barely a month post-op has me raising my eyebrows.
Hope you all had a good night's sleep.
Love,
Lynda M. in AZ