HatheryOnHerWay

I feel like a real genius. Not. Last night when I got home the pain in my tummy got worse and worse, and I was literally writhing on the couch. I realized the pain felt more like a distended abdomen, and then it hit me...I hadn't pooped in over a week. DUH! I took some Milk of Magnesia and like magic, 2 hours later (and 4 trips to the loo later) I was feeling fabulous!! I do have a pulled muscle in my abdomen, but because that hurt I failed to realize the growing pain of being constipated. Let me tell ya, with the poop pain gone the pulled muscle is a LOT more tolerable! hahaha Happy Friday!

Me, too! I feel like I'm constantly drinking Water, yet it amounts to hardly anything. Agh!

When you reach certain posting milestones (like, say, your 100th post) sometimes you'll get a nice PM from him that says something like "You're awesome!" And then you'll be like, "Thanks! I don't know who you are! But thanks!"

Surgery 5/22 SW 288 CW 267 21 pounds down

How did you know you had a stricture? What were the symptoms?

I felt the same way on day 3!

Whatever is comfortable

My incisions are nearly healed. They're not red, hot, hard or lumpy. I'm hurting in a wide area, but I can kind of narrow it down to being worse if I press in the area around my incisions. It's worse when I'm sitting down than when I'm standing up.

My doctor never had a requirement for going off the pill or waiting to go back on. The big thing with the pill is the risk of blood clots, so I think every patient is different in whether or not they can go back on right away. Some people are at higher risk for blood clots than others, and some doctors are more conservative than others.

Okay, so all this week I've been dealing with some pulled muscles in my abdomen. I overdid it over the weekend trying to adjust some wires behind my entertainment center, and managed to really tick off some of the muscles that are trying to heal. So far I've been icing my belly, taking liquid hydrocodone left over from my surgery, wearing a back brace to support my abdomen and lower back muscles, and trying to rest as much as possible (easier said than done because I work full-time!) I called my surgeon to make sure my symptoms didn't trouble him, and he agreed that it sounds like I probably re-tore some of the abdominal muscles that were healing. Lovely Any other suggestions on how to make myself comfortable or speed along recovery? I was doing SO WELL after surgery, and could just kick myself for messing around with the stupid entertainment center. Rather, I could kick my husband for not doing it himself. haha

Haha, the proverbial can of worms has once again just been popped open!

I know the feeling...I'm also at 3 weeks and WAY past the point where 1-1/2 oz is gonna cut it.

Dark chocolate has always tasted like an ashtray to me! hehe

That's a very good question! I would think doing a 2 week liquid diet would at least give people a taste of "what they're in for" during the healing phase.

Sure thing. Although I think everyone should consider it magical that they're hearing from me at all, since apparently I live in a third-world country

Who still refers to people from the North as "Yankees"? I thought only Civil War re-enactors used that term. We "Yankees" prefer to think of everyone in the US as "Americans".

And I see she has brown hair. Lets all make irrelevant observations! Wee!

I'm vegetarian. 15 years.

I tried egg for the first time yesterday. It was delicious until 5 minutes later when I threw it up. Haha

It's not necessarily the poster's fault, though...not every surgeon is as thorough about what to expect. If you're self-pay, you probably didn't even have an orientation. Granted you should do your own research, but some people prefer to get direction right from their doc (which could be severely lacking!)

Sounds like a friend of mine going on about how much weight she's gaining during her pregnancy and how much she hates it...today I told her "It's hard to muster any sympathy when I still weigh 70 more pounds than you." I don't even have the luxury of attributing my chunkiness to a human growing inside me.

You're gonna turn some heads!

It's the 3 week stall....do a search for it on the forum, and you'll find it's quite common.

what kind of jerk would say that?!? I'd be tempted to say "I guess my face matches your soul." haha