Any runners out there???

I am exactly 4 wks postop from TLH, I was an avid runner before my surgery and have not run since the day before my surgery. Not in pain at this point, just SUPER LOW energy and I get very naseaus if I push myself too hard. Wondering if anyone else out there was a runner before their hysterectomy and what the process of getting back was like. I am guessing I won't be logging any real miles till after the new year.

I am!! I am 9 weeks post op. At my 6 week appointment I was told that it looked like I had a stitch come open, so I was told to wait 2 weeks and then try and see if I bled at all, and if not it was ok. Well last saturday I went for my first run. It was kind of pitiful, like starting all over again, and I had to take a couple walk breaks, but no bleeding at all!! I will say that at a mile and a half my stomach started hurting, so I stopped and walked home, but it is a start. (by the way I had my surgery via di vinci robot, and I kept my ovaries).

I am an avid runner. I had a tah bso a year ago. I did not run until i was released at my 4week appt. It was slow getting back to my old form but i have done 7 marathons since sept.2010. The first few attempts i didnt think i would ever get it back but it does come back.

Yay!! SO glad to find some other woman to get some guidance from around this. I am not really having any pain, my issue is the profound exhaustion. I went back to work too quickly (took only 2 weeks off) and I feel that set me back. After 2 weeks at work, my office manager basically told me I looked like hell and to take another week off...so that is now my plan. I walked (a mile) today and thought I would walk every day for the enxt week and go from there. It feels like it will be awhile befor I can run..my activites of daily life..take it out of me. WHen I get tired I get really nauseous. I was running about 25plus miles a week all summer and it feels like it will be a long time (feb? MArch? April?) before my milege will be up there again. Being told to "listen to my body" by my OB is so tough...running is my escape, my release..I feel so crappy mentally without it! I feel like I will be startign at ground zero..its been a solid month without runnning...

Be patient it will come back. My first attempts left me exhausted as well. I could not keep up with people in my running group that i use to lap but months of run//walking it slowly came back. Now i have shaved 45 minutes off my marathon time and feel great. Once i got my hormones balanced the endurance started coming back.

I totally understand, exercise is my stress outlet, and without it, I tend to overeat, so not only have I lost all muscle definition, but I have also gained 10 lbs. I am so glad I can start taking short runs, I will take anything at this point. And yes it feels like starting over, but that's ok, I know I can get back to where I was, and so will you.

Thanks ladies!! Guess its all a lesson in patience! Gonna aim for another walk again tomorrow... I will keep you posted!

This is not really quite on the topic, but did any of you runners lose heaps of muscle in the time you were in hospital? I am more of a sprinter (I play field hockey) so only do running for fitness. I usually have pretty powerful quads, but they have shrunk to nothing and I have lost about 3kg in the week I was in hospital. Did your legs feel week when you went back to running?

2 days in a row of a 2.2 mile walk/run..slow..28 mins. Feeling beat but its a start. Think its a reasonable start? Scared to push to hard.

Dinad great start your on your way back! Zany i also lift weights and i was amazed how fast i lost my muscle tone but i was happy that once i got back to it the muscle tone also came back quickly. Of course it took me a year to get back to my weights my body just seemed to tell me not yet everytime i picked up the weights before that. It seems even though we have to stop doing what we love when we get back at it our bodies have great muscle memory.