Since the lap, the pain level has varied from one day to the next. Overall, this post-op pain has come in different "flavors" than the standard, familiar adhesion-pain...you know, my belly-button hurt for a while, now I have little knobby places under my belly button and the other incision where I assume the muscles are knitting back together...those areas are very tender.
Yesterday I had pain all over my right side though, not just down where the adhesions were, but all the way up to my ribs. A few times I just sat down and cried. Used to think I was not pain-sensitive, in my past life. HA. My tummy has been very bloated -- I have IBS too and think the anesthetic slowed my digestion way down. That is only an inconvenience, I can live with that.
I took Vioxx early in the day thinking that would take the edge off, plus my Colace which I take every day at lunch time...by mid-afternoon I was so sorry I had taken Vioxx. I wished I had not so I could take Vicodin. I tried to sit still and keep the heating pad on. I have been rigid with fear the adhesions are back, or will return.
Then this morning, I woke up to a little less bloating, hardly any tenderness on the right side...there is a little pain. My navel still hurts but there is visible bruising so I am convinced that pain is within reasonable limits. Maybe things are getting a little better? This is, so far, a very good day! Best one I've had in a while.
I don't feel the adhesion pain at this particular moment, and it is heavenly. The other stuff I could live with if only that other pain would stay gone!! I don't mind being bloated or having pain in my bowels...it's the other kind, the adhesion pain, that destroys me. Maybe things are starting to heal??
Hope you all are having a super day!!
{{{{hugs}}}}}
Lynda in Arizona