Tvh 10/13/2011

Thought I would share my whole story with everyone...why I had to have a TVH - what happened during the surgery. but most of all its been great to be able to go to my support page here and go through the little post-op problems and know that other people have the same issues also.


Around the beginning of the year, I noticed that my periods were longer and bleeding was heavier. Cramping was awful, and I was peeing all the time. Would pee, than not 1/2 hour later would have to pee again.

During my routine ob appt at the end of August, I let my doctor know what was going on, and when she did her check she noticed that my bladder was lower than normal. So we scheduled a vaginal MRI to see what was going on. Found out that I had a couple of fibroids. One so big it was about the size of my uterus. She felt the best thing for me was a hysterctomy and just remove my uterus. I would keep my tubes. I had a lot of thinking, and wanted to make sure it was the right thing for me.

I talked with family, friends and people at work and a majority felt a hysterctomy would be the best thing for me. I knew that my fibroids were growing fast and if I wanted a easy vaginal hysterctomy it would be in my best interest to do it now rather than later. So the surgery was scheduled for October 13th.

I went ahead and took Wed, Oct 12th off, becuase I had to do a bowel prep before surgery, and I coulnd't eat or drink after midnight the day before the surgery. I will be honest I was so scared. The morning of the surgery, I got there at 730am, and the surgery was scheduled for 930am. Nurses came in and attached everything to me to get me ready. My doctor came in to check on me, and to make sure everything was ok. She than told me that she had a patient in labor and delivery and she just wanted to go check on her.

Went through all the questions and since this was my one and only surgery ever, not sure how I would react to stuff they decided to double up on the anxiety medication. One of the nurses came in and said the doctor is now running behind her patient decided to go into labor. So more questions and more setup.

After everything was done, and I was ready. The nurse went ahead and push the button for the medication, and I was out.....next thing I remembered I was in recovery, and the nurse was calling my name. She said everything was done and went really good. I told her I had some pain in my stomach, and she said they asked earlier if I wanted pain medication and I told them no....ok...don't remember any of that....so they put me on my side and put the pain meds in my spine, and I felt better......my room was ready, so they starting rolling me to my room, and I noticed that I was getting sick, and really wanted to throw up.

When they moved me to the bed in my room, I really felt awful and nausated. And the next thing I knew I was throwing up, and that is all I did the whole rest of the day. Sleep for 15 minutes, throw up, sleep, throw up. I was so thankful my husband and brother were there, because it was nice to have somebody hold the pan and hold my hair back.

Around 9pm is when everything finally stopped, and all I wanted to do is sleep. The whole night nurses came in and out to check on me, so sleep was hard to come by.

Around 6am the iv came out, which I would so happy about, but oxygen stayed in, and the cathater. She came back 645am and the cathater came out. WOOHOO!!!! but little did I know there was packing up in there also, and that had to come out. It doesn't hurt, but OMG that was the most uncomfortable thing to go through. I got to sit in the chair and the oxyen was out also. And I was just waiting for food. I drank my apple juice, and ate my broth with crackers, and I don't think I had any problems.....

The only thing left was walking and peeing. It was about 2 hours later, and I had to go pee so bad, my bladder was full and I knew it. but nothing. So the nurse told me to walk around and it seemed to help I finally went pee, which means I get to go home.

I've spent the rest of Friday, Sat and Sun resting....and I'm just waiting for a bm to happen. This morning Monday I took a laxative stool softner, and I'm just hoping it will start working. From what I understand this will be my most painful thing.....but I can remember it being like that after the boys were born. So I just wait and see.