Comments on: Has anyone had a postoperative infection after a fibroid procedure? http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/ asking questions and finding answers during my personal fibroid journey Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chambros http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-46390 Chambros Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:10:25 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-46390 hey ladies, thanks so much for sharing your stories..this is actually my first time responding on one of these sites! so here goes! Day 9 post Laproscopic myomectomy, and I am going stir crazy not being able to be active. I still have a bit of pain in my abdomen and my back muscles are definitely on strike! They ache and hurt as they hold up my body with the lack of abdominal strength. ouch.... I am a runner, so I'm having a hard time with not being able to lift anything heavy or be active at all. I'm glad I read other people postings about healing time and taking it easy. I also wanted to ask if anyone had experienced a yeast infection after the surgery? I wasn't on antibiotics, but I seems to have this raging infections going on. Its so not fun. Does anyone know if it's ok to take yeast infection medicine after the operation??? Other things to report, still 9 days after surgery, little pain in the urethra when I pee and also pain if I laugh too hard, sneeze or cough. Happy and speedy healing ladies, glad to see this thread online. ;) Chambros hey ladies, thanks so much for sharing your stories..this is actually my first time responding on one of these sites! so here goes!

Day 9 post Laproscopic myomectomy, and I am going stir crazy not being able to be active. I still have a bit of pain in my abdomen and my back muscles are definitely on strike! They ache and hurt as they hold up my body with the lack of abdominal strength. ouch…. I am a runner, so I’m having a hard time with not being able to lift anything heavy or be active at all. I’m glad I read other people postings about healing time and taking it easy.

I also wanted to ask if anyone had experienced a yeast infection after the surgery? I wasn’t on antibiotics, but I seems to have this raging infections going on. Its so not fun. Does anyone know if it’s ok to take yeast infection medicine after the operation???

Other things to report, still 9 days after surgery, little pain in the urethra when I pee and also pain if I laugh too hard, sneeze or cough.

Happy and speedy healing ladies, glad to see this thread online.
;)

Chambros

]]> By: Amy http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-46279 Amy Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:01:16 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-46279 Wow Skye! I just found your account and what an account it is! Too bad you didn't post it on the myomectomy thread.. a lot more people read that. I haven't had a myomectomy, although I did have an ovarian cyst removed 30 yrs ago... and it sure seems like you have had a rougher time of it. Hope you're better by now. How about an update? If I ever get permission from Wordpress to monitor this blog (it's been abandoned) I'll move it or place a copy of this on the myomectomy thread - where it will do more good. Until then, maybe you'd want to post there.... thanks again for posting. Wow Skye! I just found your account and what an account it is! Too bad you didn’t post it on the myomectomy thread.. a lot more people read that. I haven’t had a myomectomy, although I did have an ovarian cyst removed 30 yrs ago… and it sure seems like you have had a rougher time of it. Hope you’re better by now. How about an update? If I ever get permission from WordPress to monitor this blog (it’s been abandoned) I’ll move it or place a copy of this on the myomectomy thread – where it will do more good. Until then, maybe you’d want to post there…. thanks again for posting.

]]> By: Skye http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-46157 Skye Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:47:06 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-46157 Wow, my first thought is...HOW do you guys even type on your laptops or sit at your computer this is so uncomfortable. I am 12 days post abdominal myomectomy (sorry I don't know the acronyms so spelling everything out)...and geez, I was so unprepared for this. Mind you, my doctor did warn me of long recovery time and pain but he seemed to fail to talk about all the symptoms. And thank you everyone for posting here as this is my first surfing in the dark at midnight to see why I am having the most bizarre symptoms. I can read through these posts and go check, check, yep, check, yep and then I even have some to add! I'll be seeing my doctor post op at 2 week mark and man the list of questions is long! Here goes with the recovery list as I had about 6 fibroids removed and some were internal and some were submucosal and several measured about 7 cm. Doc said he also found a touch of endometriosis on uterus and one ovary that he cauterized and just a tiny amount as he put it. Was under general anesthesia for fist time and have a smiley face scar at top of hair line that seems to reach from leg to leg although doc said it was slightly shorter than one he would need to make to pull a baby out! Symtomps in hospital for 2 days: 1. Stomach turned into basketball. Seriously. So hard. So large. So bloated from under rib cage all the way down. They said from gas and narcotics caused the gas and general anesthesia shutting your sytems down and about 8 hours for things to start back up again. They give you stool softener pills which actually helped. The goal is to burp and fart and have a bowel movement if you're super girl! 2. Barely walking upright but could walk about 12 hours post surgery. Would take my IV for a walk. I had a catheter. Very odd but handy to not have to get up to go to bathroom! I took 4 walks the day after surgery. I got no sleep as nurses keep waking you. Very sore stomach from the bloat. Walking seemed to help. 3. When time to try to get catheter out and go to bathroom myself it was moderate pain but tolerable. Think bad urinary tract infection feelings very low. Gas pains made it hard to bend forward and bend over and it would take me a while to relax all my muscles to just 'go'. 4. My stomach continued to be a basketball for days even eliminated gas and having bowel movements etc. This caused the most pain in the beginning. Home Recovery symptoms: 1. Zingers. They shoot down and through my middle, lower mid section, vaginal area, partial inner thigh. 2. Cramping sensations. I think pinching feelings very low middle and on the sides. It's like involuntary kegals. 3. Quivering. Yes, I could feel blood pulsing or nerves or who knows what causing pulses and quivering sensations. Now mind you, a few years back I had a full ruptured lumbar disc and I thought I knew every type of nerve quiver there was going down my leg, but this is oddball. Sometimes down the inner thigh. 4. Bloat. Did I say bloat? Bloat. Then after several days it turned into warbly bloat. Bigger in spots than others. I could look down and see my stomch stuck in undulating wavelike patterns that changed over time. A few days parts actually sucked inward while others pouched out. 5. Piercing pains. I'm walking along, minding my own business and pow, right in the lower kisser. For me mostly on the right lower part of my belly but also right smack in the lower mid section vaginal area. I'd get 'stuck' in place and not be able to move for a moment. Occasionaly days 7=today I would be so stuck as to not be able to put weight on my right side as it made it worse so I'd holler to hubby to come and jack me up under one arm and help me to the couch. This oddly happened more frequently after urinating and sometimes after bowel movement which you would think would be the other way around! 6. Incision pain. This was the only symptom I did expect and doctor said I would feel. It's the more normal one and makes the most sense so your mind has an easy time with this. Drugs seem to help this one more than they help with my other symptoms. And yes, of course I'm sensitive to any medication in my stomach so that makes matters worse. 7. Early on nausea from meds. Also nausea if I had not eaten in a while. Then the opposite feeling way too full after having very little, like water. 8. Peeing...a LOT. I normally pee a lot. But for first 10 days had to get up in middle of night to go quite often. 9. Feels like urinary pain in bladder sometimes while peeing and sometimes after and sometimes fine. Sometimes feel it burning right through urethra and sometimes not. Better over time. Sometimes feel this burning even when not peeing. Comes and goes. 10. Sensitive to touch. Any pressure on my belly anywhere and I will kill you. Most underwear is even too much pressure or sensation. Even blankets on top of me feels a bit ouchy. Love the heating pad! Thanks hubby for suggestion! 11. Stomach grumbles. I'm on day 12 and I can hear it as I type. Itls often active after any kind of food and often without food. I can feel exactly where gas is and where it moves to and it's bizarre. It reminds me of college and the nights I shot-gunned beer. Oh, and you know how you want to hold everything in while you're on a long plane trip and then then you get all bloaty and crampy for a few hours post trip...well it's like that times 10. I'm even like this on the days I've not taken any medicine. 12. Tight tissue and muscles. Did I say tight? I meant to type brick-like. Worst is right around the belly button. I swear my doc must have taken mine off during surgery and reattached it and put it on too tight. Like it doesn't fit anymore and is a few sizes too small and it's getting stretched. And if you've every done hard core weight training and actually ripped apart the muscle tissue for it to rebuild and after breaking apart it is the same feeling. Except minus the work out of course. Ugh. I'm stretching and it gets better each day but it's so odd to have it go right back to brick status after a stretch. And it does pull and hurt to stretch. But also feels relief in surrounding areas as everything gets tight as a result immobility and bed rest, etc. I can stretch a bit a have since day one post surgery. But it also can give me worse symptoms for a while about an hour later so hard to balance how much to do or not to do. 13. So all my happy C section mommy friends said they could easily carry their baby post surgery and I thought hey, that's a good gallon of milk. But oh no, there is no carrying a gallon of milk, not even the half gallon. It just seems to activate the muscles right down low in the middle and not a good sensation. Ouch. But get this, I can totally imagine carrying a baby on my hip. Side holding and carrying is much better so I literally take my smallest watering can for the flowers and fill it, pull it to the side under one arm like a football and walk with it that way watering the plants. Whew. 14. Vertical time fatigue. Or this is at least what I call it. Minimal hang time. Sitting hurts and lying down is good. Standing does not hurt a ton but gets very sore quickly and as the tightening builds and soreness builds with being vertical and walking you eventually want to lye back down for relief. I'm about 20 to 60 minutes max vertical time right now on day 12. Varies. After days where I push it more, the next day I am shorter on duration. Ugh. I hope this helps and man I wish I read this site before my surgery! I am 41 and was fit before surgery and even doing extra ab work and push ups before surgery. I've only had out patient laproscopic types of surgery before this and this one takes the cake by far. Good luck everyone, take it slow and man, patience is a virtue. Wow, my first thought is…HOW do you guys even type on your laptops or sit at your computer this is so uncomfortable. I am 12 days post abdominal myomectomy (sorry I don’t know the acronyms so spelling everything out)…and geez, I was so unprepared for this. Mind you, my doctor did warn me of long recovery time and pain but he seemed to fail to talk about all the symptoms. And thank you everyone for posting here as this is my first surfing in the dark at midnight to see why I am having the most bizarre symptoms. I can read through these posts and go check, check, yep, check, yep and then I even have some to add! I’ll be seeing my doctor post op at 2 week mark and man the list of questions is long! Here goes with the recovery list as I had about 6 fibroids removed and some were internal and some were submucosal and several measured about 7 cm. Doc said he also found a touch of endometriosis on uterus and one ovary that he cauterized and just a tiny amount as he put it. Was under general anesthesia for fist time and have a smiley face scar at top of hair line that seems to reach from leg to leg although doc said it was slightly shorter than one he would need to make to pull a baby out! Symtomps in hospital for 2 days:
1. Stomach turned into basketball. Seriously. So hard. So large. So bloated from under rib cage all the way down. They said from gas and narcotics caused the gas and general anesthesia shutting your sytems down and about 8 hours for things to start back up again. They give you stool softener pills which actually helped. The goal is to burp and fart and have a bowel movement if you’re super girl!
2. Barely walking upright but could walk about 12 hours post surgery. Would take my IV for a walk. I had a catheter. Very odd but handy to not have to get up to go to bathroom! I took 4 walks the day after surgery. I got no sleep as nurses keep waking you. Very sore stomach from the bloat. Walking seemed to help.
3. When time to try to get catheter out and go to bathroom myself it was moderate pain but tolerable. Think bad urinary tract infection feelings very low. Gas pains made it hard to bend forward and bend over and it would take me a while to relax all my muscles to just ‘go’.
4. My stomach continued to be a basketball for days even eliminated gas and having bowel movements etc. This caused the most pain in the beginning.
Home Recovery symptoms:
1. Zingers. They shoot down and through my middle, lower mid section, vaginal area, partial inner thigh.
2. Cramping sensations. I think pinching feelings very low middle and on the sides. It’s like involuntary kegals.
3. Quivering. Yes, I could feel blood pulsing or nerves or who knows what causing pulses and quivering sensations. Now mind you, a few years back I had a full ruptured lumbar disc and I thought I knew every type of nerve quiver there was going down my leg, but this is oddball. Sometimes down the inner thigh.
4. Bloat. Did I say bloat? Bloat. Then after several days it turned into warbly bloat. Bigger in spots than others. I could look down and see my stomch stuck in undulating wavelike patterns that changed over time. A few days parts actually sucked inward while others pouched out.
5. Piercing pains. I’m walking along, minding my own business and pow, right in the lower kisser. For me mostly on the right lower part of my belly but also right smack in the lower mid section vaginal area. I’d get ’stuck’ in place and not be able to move for a moment. Occasionaly days 7=today I would be so stuck as to not be able to put weight on my right side as it made it worse so I’d holler to hubby to come and jack me up under one arm and help me to the couch. This oddly happened more frequently after urinating and sometimes after bowel movement which you would think would be the other way around!
6. Incision pain. This was the only symptom I did expect and doctor said I would feel. It’s the more normal one and makes the most sense so your mind has an easy time with this. Drugs seem to help this one more than they help with my other symptoms. And yes, of course I’m sensitive to any medication in my stomach so that makes matters worse.
7. Early on nausea from meds. Also nausea if I had not eaten in a while. Then the opposite feeling way too full after having very little, like water.
8. Peeing…a LOT. I normally pee a lot. But for first 10 days had to get up in middle of night to go quite often.
9. Feels like urinary pain in bladder sometimes while peeing and sometimes after and sometimes fine. Sometimes feel it burning right through urethra and sometimes not. Better over time. Sometimes feel this burning even when not peeing. Comes and goes.
10. Sensitive to touch. Any pressure on my belly anywhere and I will kill you. Most underwear is even too much pressure or sensation. Even blankets on top of me feels a bit ouchy. Love the heating pad! Thanks hubby for suggestion!
11. Stomach grumbles. I’m on day 12 and I can hear it as I type. Itls often active after any kind of food and often without food. I can feel exactly where gas is and where it moves to and it’s bizarre. It reminds me of college and the nights I shot-gunned beer. Oh, and you know how you want to hold everything in while you’re on a long plane trip and then then you get all bloaty and crampy for a few hours post trip…well it’s like that times 10. I’m even like this on the days I’ve not taken any medicine.
12. Tight tissue and muscles. Did I say tight? I meant to type brick-like. Worst is right around the belly button. I swear my doc must have taken mine off during surgery and reattached it and put it on too tight. Like it doesn’t fit anymore and is a few sizes too small and it’s getting stretched. And if you’ve every done hard core weight training and actually ripped apart the muscle tissue for it to rebuild and after breaking apart it is the same feeling. Except minus the work out of course. Ugh. I’m stretching and it gets better each day but it’s so odd to have it go right back to brick status after a stretch. And it does pull and hurt to stretch. But also feels relief in surrounding areas as everything gets tight as a result immobility and bed rest, etc. I can stretch a bit a have since day one post surgery. But it also can give me worse symptoms for a while about an hour later so hard to balance how much to do or not to do.
13. So all my happy C section mommy friends said they could easily carry their baby post surgery and I thought hey, that’s a good gallon of milk. But oh no, there is no carrying a gallon of milk, not even the half gallon. It just seems to activate the muscles right down low in the middle and not a good sensation. Ouch. But get this, I can totally imagine carrying a baby on my hip. Side holding and carrying is much better so I literally take my smallest watering can for the flowers and fill it, pull it to the side under one arm like a football and walk with it that way watering the plants. Whew.
14. Vertical time fatigue. Or this is at least what I call it. Minimal hang time. Sitting hurts and lying down is good. Standing does not hurt a ton but gets very sore quickly and as the tightening builds and soreness builds with being vertical and walking you eventually want to lye back down for relief. I’m about 20 to 60 minutes max vertical time right now on day 12. Varies. After days where I push it more, the next day I am shorter on duration. Ugh.
I hope this helps and man I wish I read this site before my surgery! I am 41 and was fit before surgery and even doing extra ab work and push ups before surgery. I’ve only had out patient laproscopic types of surgery before this and this one takes the cake by far.
Good luck everyone, take it slow and man, patience is a virtue.

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]]> By: Amy http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-38895 Amy Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:33:02 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-38895 Maria, trust your gut -- especially as this is your second surgery and your're six weeks in! If your incision is irritated, perhaps you're allergic to something in the cream -- so why not stop putting it on until you speak to your doctor...then you'll see if it calms down. Since you're concerned about infection, be sure to monitor your temperature. Best to you. Maria, trust your gut — especially as this is your second surgery and your’re six weeks in! If your incision is irritated, perhaps you’re allergic to something in the cream — so why not stop putting it on until you speak to your doctor…then you’ll see if it calms down. Since you’re concerned about infection, be sure to monitor your temperature. Best to you.

]]> By: Maria http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-38888 Maria Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:13:41 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-38888 Hello Ladies, I am in my sixth week of recovery. This week I have been having pain on my right side --in the area where my fibroid was removed. The pain arises when I am standing. I have been pain free for about two weeks rarley taking motirn. My Doc prescribed a cream for my incision to prevent scaring. The next day the pain started and my incison has been more irritated than normal. After calling I was told that I may be ovulating and that the pain sounds normal. I am going to call on Monday but wondered if others have had similar issues so I can ask good questions! This doesn't feel normal. This is my second AM and I don't remember this from my first experience. Hello Ladies,

I am in my sixth week of recovery. This week I have been having pain on my right side –in the area where my fibroid was removed. The pain arises when I am standing. I have been pain free for about two weeks rarley taking motirn. My Doc prescribed a cream for my incision to prevent scaring. The next day the pain started and my incison has been more irritated than normal. After calling I was told that I may be ovulating and that the pain sounds normal. I am going to call on Monday but wondered if others have had similar issues so I can ask good questions! This doesn’t feel normal. This is my second AM and I don’t remember this from my first experience.

]]> By: Loralye http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-38349 Loralye Mon, 19 May 2008 14:24:30 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-38349 Hi, just wondering if anyone has exerienced a hard swelling. I had an abdominal myomectomy, and all the soft swelling has gone away, that's great, but left me with this extremely hard swelling underneath. Like what is this? I've been researching this phenomenon all over the internet for 4 days now, and can't find one other person with this post-op problem. And when I say it's hard swelling, it's HARD, like you can actually *Knock* on it like wood, hahaha. Geeze, the skin is so tight over it now, It makes it painful to walk cause the skin has to stretch over this swelling. Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this. Hi, just wondering if anyone has exerienced a hard swelling. I had an abdominal myomectomy, and all the soft swelling has gone away, that’s great, but left me with this extremely hard swelling underneath. Like what is this? I’ve been researching this phenomenon all over the internet for 4 days now, and can’t find one other person with this post-op problem. And when I say it’s hard swelling, it’s HARD, like you can actually *Knock* on it like wood, hahaha. Geeze, the skin is so tight over it now, It makes it painful to walk cause the skin has to stretch over this swelling. Anyway thanks for taking the time to read this.

]]> By: artied http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-37860 artied Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:05:45 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-37860 that is why I think the Embolization is better. that is why I think the Embolization is better.

]]> By: Amy http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-35955 Amy Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:45:21 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-35955 wow Lulu! I've been reading this for a while and don't remember anything quite like what you've described with a myom! Although I have read about infections and complications with some of the other procedures... but you have to hunt through some of the other threads. Hope you feel better soon. wow Lulu! I’ve been reading this for a while and don’t remember anything quite like what you’ve described with a myom! Although I have read about infections and complications with some of the other procedures… but you have to hunt through some of the other threads. Hope you feel better soon.

]]> By: lulu http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-35930 lulu Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:40:22 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-35930 hi there this is my first posting here, although i have been reading it a lot over the last few months! i am at the end of 3 weeks post myom, and it's been a nightmare. I felt unwell when i left hospital - pain, sickness etc - and my wound part-opened with smelly gunge coming out. My GP put me on anti-biotics and I was seeing the nurse every day, and then last week I questioned the hardness on my tummy, near the wound area. It was apparently "fine". turned out to be an abscess which burst very dramatically - I was covered in puss which gushed out through the gap in my wound - and I spent two night in hospital. it's almost a month and i really don't feel close enough to being as well as I had hoped by now. has anyone else has such a horrible infection? hi there

this is my first posting here, although i have been reading it a lot over the last few months! i am at the end of 3 weeks post myom, and it’s been a nightmare. I felt unwell when i left hospital – pain, sickness etc – and my wound part-opened with smelly gunge coming out. My GP put me on anti-biotics and I was seeing the nurse every day, and then last week I questioned the hardness on my tummy, near the wound area. It was apparently “fine”. turned out to be an abscess which burst very dramatically – I was covered in puss which gushed out through the gap in my wound – and I spent two night in hospital. it’s almost a month and i really don’t feel close enough to being as well as I had hoped by now. has anyone else has such a horrible infection?

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]]> By: Lisa http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-22994 Lisa Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:13:22 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-22994 I had my myomectomy 6 weeks ago with Dr. Slowey NJ and I'm much better now. He's EXCELLENT! Thank goodness for this site because I knew what to expect. The Only bad pain I experienced was right after the operation. Thank goodness for morphine and drugs. I had 7 fibriods and one of them was on a stalk and was 10lbs. The big one was affecting my kidneys. By week 3 I yelled "I'm tired of feeling this way"; having never had any medical problems or treatments before. I wasn't in terrible pain at all (even when I developed the small hemotoma that burst a week later; I did too much and didn't rest). I was happy to have the operation but was sick and tired of the time it takes to heal. I'm very independent and needed help around the house. I still get tired and I started working out 3 weeks ago to get back in shape and to get my stamina back. I still have some swelling and have what feels like hardening right under the skin. Does anyone know what that is or what to do to help it? I haven't experience any other problems. What works and seems to help: Get gas x, drink plenty of cranberry juice and water, eat light, Rest. If possible don't do anything for at least two and a half weeks except to walk around a little. Take vitamin C, Iron and Fish oil. Drink bancha / green tea. Heating pads/ice packs are excellent. Get great pillows. I got a great body pillow and a pillow to lean on since I couldn't sleep on my stomach for 5 weeks. Getting waxed a week before hand was a big help; no itching. My scar is perfect. Woltra Cocoa butter and BioOil really seem to help the outside scar. Everyone heals differently but any advice reg inside scar harding/swelling will be helpful. I had my myomectomy 6 weeks ago with Dr. Slowey NJ and I’m much better now. He’s EXCELLENT! Thank goodness for this site because I knew what to expect. The Only bad pain I experienced was right after the operation. Thank goodness for morphine and drugs. I had 7 fibriods and one of them was on a stalk and was 10lbs. The big one was affecting my kidneys. By week 3 I yelled “I’m tired of feeling this way”; having never had any medical problems or treatments before. I wasn’t in terrible pain at all (even when I developed the small hemotoma that burst a week later; I did too much and didn’t rest). I was happy to have the operation but was sick and tired of the time it takes to heal. I’m very independent and needed help around the house. I still get tired and I started working out 3 weeks ago to get back in shape and to get my stamina back. I still have some swelling and have what feels like hardening right under the skin. Does anyone know what that is or what to do to help it? I haven’t experience any other problems. What works and seems to help:
Get gas x, drink plenty of cranberry juice and water, eat light, Rest. If possible don’t do anything for at least two and a half weeks except to walk around a little. Take vitamin C, Iron and Fish oil. Drink bancha / green tea. Heating pads/ice packs are excellent. Get great pillows. I got a great body pillow and a pillow to lean on since I couldn’t sleep on my stomach for 5 weeks. Getting waxed a week before hand was a big help; no itching. My scar is perfect. Woltra Cocoa butter and BioOil really seem to help the outside scar. Everyone heals differently but any advice reg inside scar harding/swelling will be helpful.

]]> By: Tiff http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-20212 Tiff Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:24:17 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-20212 Anyone have experience with a very itchy abdomen with a bumpy rash which resembles razor burn? I am on day 8 post-op myomectomy. They found 13 fibroids - size range 8 inches to a golf ball. Not too much pain - percocet makes me ill - so I've been on dilaudid off and on. Only a 3 pills yesterday and only 1 today. Anyway...I think I am going crazy - the itching started last night in my sleep - woke me -up. I was okay most of today but then when I took a small nap after runnign some errands with my mom - the itchign resumed with a venegance. Doctor didn't seem too concerned by it today - but I can't take it!!!! Anyone else run into this nonsense...don't think it's the healign process since I have a rash too. Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Anyone have experience with a very itchy abdomen with a bumpy rash which resembles razor burn? I am on day 8 post-op myomectomy. They found 13 fibroids – size range 8 inches to a golf ball. Not too much pain – percocet makes me ill – so I’ve been on dilaudid off and on. Only a 3 pills yesterday and only 1 today. Anyway…I think I am going crazy – the itching started last night in my sleep – woke me -up. I was okay most of today but then when I took a small nap after runnign some errands with my mom – the itchign resumed with a venegance. Doctor didn’t seem too concerned by it today – but I can’t take it!!!! Anyone else run into this nonsense…don’t think it’s the healign process since I have a rash too. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Jay Jay http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/comment-page-1/#comment-17922 Jay Jay Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:47:31 +0000 http://geekwithfibroids.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/has-anyone-had-a-postoperative-infection-after-a-fibroid-procedure/#comment-17922 I am at week 3 1/2 and I am still in lots of pain and very tired. I feel like I am never going to be normal. Had AM and a wound infection. Will it get better? Does anyone have the same experience. I am a photojournalist with the Army, my unit leaves in two weeks and I feel like I am not going to be ready for IRAQ. Ofcourse, a Journalist's dream. I am at week 3 1/2 and I am still in lots of pain and very tired. I feel like I am never going to be normal. Had AM and a wound infection. Will it get better? Does anyone have the same experience. I am a photojournalist with the Army, my unit leaves in two weeks and I feel like I am not going to be ready for IRAQ. Ofcourse, a Journalist’s dream.

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