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3 weeks post hysterectomy: Terrible night with nausea, pains and insomnia
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04-10-2014, 07:26 AM
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HysterSister
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Posts: 620
Hysterectomy: March 20th, 2014
Surgery Type: DvH
Ovaries: Kept 1 or both
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3 weeks post hysterectomy: Terrible night with nausea, pains and insomnia
I MAYBE got 2 hours of sleep total. I had such tummy trouble - feeling so nauseated (A LOT like morning sickness) which is not common for me PO. It felt like things were moving around in there and at times felt as tho it did when I was pregnant and the baby would move around.
I couldn't get comfortable and my anxiety was starting to get bad due to the weird tummy feelings. Hemamoraging? Hematoma? Stomach ulcer? Heart attack? Every bad thing went thru my head.
Not feeling much better now and I have to drive my daughter to the bus stop in a few minutes because my husband went to work early and will also be gone most of the night.
I feel resentful that we don't have more help or people to count on. I feel frustrated that I still feel like crap every day. I am angry that I still have so much fear. I get selfishly sad when I read posts about how great others are doing only days after surgery. I am such a jerk.
Sorry for my rant. I am 3 weeks out today and I just cannot seem to get over the fact that I am healing so slowly. And I dread the next few weeks because I know they may not be all that much better.
Alright, I will shut up now.
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04-10-2014, 07:39 AM
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HysterSister
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Posts: 180
Hysterectomy: February 7th, 2014
Surgery Type: DvH
Ovaries: Kept 1 or both
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Re: Terrible night with nausea, pains and insomnia
First You are 3 weeks out and you're doing great. I know it sucks. I wanted to throw things at 3 weeks because I thought I'd be fine in 2 weeks. Never realized just how hard recovery was going to be. I remember the feelings of things floating around - I even asked my Dr if it was my ovaries and organs just mindlessly floating around b/c of the new space. It's so hard when you don't know exactly what's' going on inside your own body.
it takes time - and I know you probably want to throw something at ME right now for saying that but it's true. I'm 9 weeks tomorrow and still get tired and have weird pulling feelings certain ways I turn or twist.. time is what we need when most of us just don't have it to wait.
Much support to you.
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04-10-2014, 09:34 AM
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HysterSister
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Posts: 89
Hysterectomy: March 14th, 2014
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Re: 3 weeks post hysterectomy: Terrible night with nausea, pains and insomnia
Hang in there and know you are not alone! I'm 3 weeks out too and haven't slept properly for days now, my body just seems to go nuts at night. I have the weird movement things were if I didn't know better there was a baby kicking around in there. I do have nausea and am on zophran and a patch to manage that. I can't sleep during the day because DH is back to work and I can't just sleep with 3 young kids. The most maddening symptom at night is restless legs and arms, I have been in tears the last few nights because of it. and I totally get the not getting comfortable, I have established quite the nest of pillows (no one else in the house needs one ) here on the couch because I can't lay in our bed. I prefer to sleep on my side but right now it hurts too bad to do that.
Yes, pain is still here and its okay while it might not look bad from the outside the inside has been put through the ringer. There are tons of stiches we can't see and things need to adjust. Don't compare your recovery to someone else's, we all move at a different speeds. I also thought at this point I'd be getting back to my normal routine or at least able to tackle the stairs more than once a day, or stand for longer than 15 minutes. I know I had a 'bonus' surgery that has set me back but still, its hard feeling helpless. The other thing that is getting to me is comments from family about how slow I am going, why am I not doing more, shouldn't you be at this point? Hello you have seen my stomach! When you get opened up from stem to stern and have 2 major surgeries in a week we'll talk about how fast I should be going.
As for the lack of help I COMPLETELY know how it feels. Its beyond frustrating and hurtful. This isn't my first stint down, I was on bed rest for most of my last pregnancy. When I went down I though my family would rally, come over and help me with the kids and housework so so much didn't fall on my husband, ha not a chance. This go around isn't much better, my mom calls daily and I get a text every few days for MIL but that's about it from the family. Both of our parents live 20 minutes away, my mom works 5 minutes from my house, my sister is 10 minutes up the road. I have seen my sister once this entire time and that was in the hospital when my mom guilted her into it, and that backfired as they had advanced my diet too quickly and I spent the evening exorcist vomiting in front of everyone...including her new BF, yeah welcome to the family there. My brother is no better, he came the day after again because my mom guilted him. It hurts so much that I have heard from my clients more than my own family checking on me. What I found is I have to flat out ask from them to come out and then cross my fingers they can. They last time family was here to 'help' was Saturday when I asked the IL to come out so my poor husband could have a break. I will say my church has been incredible I worked with them before I went down as to what we would need and they have gone above and beyond (sad they've been over to help more than my own family). They have been bringing meals, visiting, picking my daughter up from school, made me a blanket, and last night decended upon my house and cleaned most of my downstairs in 20 minutes! They were doing a service scavenger hunt.
You are not alone and feel free to vent here at anytime, we all need to do it and here we all understand what you are going through. Don't feel like you should be doing more or farther along, listen to your body and it will take time but you will get there. On bed rest and even now I find myself angry just going on facebook. People talking about how tired of being pregnant they are (that always hits a bad spot since I had to fight so hard to keep mine in there), taking their kids to the park or going shopping in the beautiful weather we have this week, I want to do that so bad. Those feeling are totally normal.
You can always call your OB with concerns, I know a few ladies are on Xanax to help with the anxiety, they had to give me some in the hospital when I started freaking out after the second surgery and I did sleep really well that night. I was thinking of calling and asking my OB if I could take a sleeping pill I'm so desperate for a good nights sleep.
Hope you are able to get a good nap in today and are feeling better. Sending hugs and prayers your way.
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