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QueenB · 09-18-2004, 10:46 PM

I am just trying to gauge the pain of the surgery. I am not skeered (

) one bit about it BUT I want to know how bad, bad is

I have had 4 c-sections and haven't suffered much with any of them. I was onthe floor inthe hosp room playing Candyland with my kids hours after one and walking to the NICU hours after another so I wasn't "dying" or anything. The last one got infected and burst (I know too much info right, sorry) but even that didn't hurt and it was open for 4 months. I also had my galblader removed by emergency surgery (lap) and that wasn't bad either.....but I know about the "gas" issues since I had them with all my surgeries, more-so with the lap one though. Also I saw this "new" surgery which just seemed like a different version of gastric bypass but the stomach section is larger and the reirection is different with the intestines.......anyone know about this? Thanks for your help......you guys are great.

watergirl · 09-19-2004, 09:02 AM

YOU WILL DO GREAT! I've had two c-sections with both my kids. One on an emergency level, the other planned. The c-sections were harder for me to recover from than GBS. Although I was able to walk up stairs and sleep in my bed after returning from the hospital from all of them. I returned to work six weeks after my kids were born, three weeks after GBS. I had the procedure done lap RNY. I would not recommend returning to work after only three weeks after GBS! It's just too soon. I have a desk job and thought it would be fine, but your body and mind are just not ready.

It sounds like you'll do just fine!

lealphachienne · 09-19-2004, 01:58 PM

I had mores soreness than sharp pain. I felt like I had done 100 crunches. I used the morphine PCA just the first day post-op and few doses of Lortab after. The discomfort was the easy part. The hard part is the first week of hell, but then it's over and it seems like nothing happened. Everyone's different, but we all manage to get through it.

HapBird · 09-19-2004, 04:00 PM

Being one of those who "chose" to live "the male lifestyle," I can't vouch for the truth of this, but I've heard that any woman who's given birth - either via C-section or the usual way - has had more pain than most men would have in a lifetime. So you're probably better prepared for this than a heck of a lot of us.

And I kind of imagine that the week or so of acute pain will be a small drop in the bucket compared with all the psychic pain we've endured for years being oversized in a society that seems to prefer skeletal thinness to anything else...

QueenB · 09-19-2004, 09:51 PM

Thanks guys.......

bridgetgirl · 09-20-2004, 11:03 AM

I went lap, but I had surgery on Monday and went back to work the following Monday... felt great, major complaint.. more fatigue than pain. You'll do fine, especially experincing C sections already. Your a soldier.