Re: 2 weeks postsurgery... still bad pain... help!
From: Alexis. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Dec 28 13:00:42 2005
Hi Myriam,
I had a similar situation and was in pain for about a month. Our bodies
all react differently. I highly recommend investing in a good heating
pad it takes the edge off when used with pain killers.
Best of luck.
At Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Myriam wrote:
>
>Hi everyone,
>I got laparoscopic surgery 2 weeks ago. They cut a very large (5'),
>long (10') and thick (thicker than my thum apparently...) adhesion on my
>right side which was stopping me to even bend more than 90 degrees, and
>they also removed white endometriosis. All these things were done using
>a KTC (sp?)laser. Right after the surgery, in recovery, I woke up in
>horrendous pain. I was crying so much but couldn't even talk because my
>voice was off due to the tube they inserted during the surgery... Pain
>only in my belly and at the level of where they used the laser. No pain
>in my shoulder or anywhere else, just this burning stabbing pain in my
>abdomen. They gave me fentanyl, several times. Instead of coming back
>home at the end of the ambulatory surgery, I had to stay 2 more days in
>the hospital to control the pain using a PCA pump and morphine. Since
>then, I had a steady but very slow recovery, but I had to stay home
>longer than a thought to recover as much as I could, until yesterday
>when I went back to work. Staying sit for long time and my pants
>pressure on my belly have triggered really bad pain... I was crying
>yesterday when I came back from work.. couldn't take it again... not
>anymore, and no more... I am not usually easily broken down by pain. It
>takes a lot for me to admit that I am in pain, and it is not the first
>lap I had, and the previous times it never hurt this bad. So now, of
>course, I am getting nervous: what is happening to me?.... I called my
>gyn but he is in vacations and I am supposed to see him in January in
>any case for the postop consultation. But until then I have to hold.
>They accepted to call in a prescription for Tylenol #3 and I am waiting
>this evening to be able to take it after work. But still, is anyone
>here had these kind of problems after their lap? Just pain, horrible
>pain, no fever (got some after the surgery, but it is gone now).
>Please, let me know if it did happen to any of you, and what did you do
>or what would do?..........
>Please, help me... I am so down and affraid...
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