10 days ago I had the surgery to repair my prolapsed bladder and also remove my uterus. I got the spinal/ morphine and as soon as I came out of the surgery I was so sick. Even though they were giving me medicine for nausea , I vomited and was so sick for about 8 hours. One thing I can say it kept me pain free for 24 hours, but I wouldn't opt to take that morphine again. I ended up going home on day 2 with a catheter, the pain visited me soon after. I so wanted to have the catheter removed , which was done on day 5 after the surgery. Shortly after I have been going to the bathroom to void every hour on the hour with the worst part the pain that I feel while voiding. I've been documenting and measuring my urine output and, was thinking that my bladder was working to much and not being allowed to rest to heal. I sent this documentation to my doctor and they immediately notified me and said it was normal. Day 10 I'm not going every hour but about 2 now with some pain. Vowels have not moved very good in the past 2 days, however I'm hoping I'll have one tomorrow I'm taking the stool softener and miralax , so we will hope for best. I've always been really active, and today it hit me pretty hard that I can't do those things I used to do right now. I cried a bit and got over it and am more determined than ever to follow all the pre-op advise and give myself the 12 weeks to heal and beyond if needed. I have a wonderful doctor who even caked me personally on day 5 which was a Saturday to see how I was doing. So I'm blessed there. I'm so thankful to find this site which I so needed today to help me look forward and not be down. Everything has been so helpful for me!! Now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Thanks to all!!
Diann, I had the same op last November, and I remember feeling very sick soon after I came round and they gave me an anti sickness med, but that did work for me. I had so little pain that it was unbelievable! The worst of my pain was wind from the laporoscopy! And that only lasted for about a day. I was warned that I could get a bladder infection because the bladder is very sensitive and the combination of the hysterectomy and prolapse repair was highly likely to cause it. Has anyone tested your wee for a bladder infection? I started to feel unwell a few days after the op and mentioned they'd said about possible bladder infection, so they tested mine and found there was one and put me on strong antibiotics quickly and four days after that I was absolutely fine. I was using laxatives (had been for many years) before but they put me on macrogol at the hospital and that worked much better than the senna I'd been using previously and I stayed using one sachet of that a day and went down to one sachet of fibrogel, and that works well for me. You don't want to be straining EVER after having a prolapse and or prolapse surgery. Just give yourself time to heal and rest as much as you need to. I'm 65 and actually bounced back from it really well. My prolapse repair did fail but that was because I have another condition that predisposed it to fail (only diagnosed AFTER they did the op!) but you will get your fitness back, but do it when they tell you and how they tell you, and don't push it before then. I got myself an exercise bike and treadmill this summer and lost weight and felt much better for it, so hope this encourages you:-)
HI Diann,
I'm 55 years old and 18 weeks postop anterior repair. The first 3 months, my Doctor had me setting an alarm to wee every 2 hours...I usually woke up at 1 to 1-1/2 hours. During the day I would go more often than that. Now I usually wake up only once during the night. If I wait too long, it is still painful and takes longer to empty my bladder. Things improve day by day, it just takes a time to heal.
God Bless,
Trsiha
Thank you!! Amazingly its slowed down and now I'm voiding like 2-3 hours. Bladder probably getting used to its new job inside me again. One day at a time!!