Were any of you ladies on your period during surgery? Got mine today and my day is Tuesday. My hospital has you completely naked under the gown, wonder how this will go down with the catheter and all.

My surgery is scheduled for next week... and so is my period lol. Should be fun.


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CW: 278 (preop 50# disowned)

They'll give you disposable underwear and a pad to use. It happens all the time and the pre-op and OR staff won't even bat an eye. Good luck with surgery!

I'm not a lady but I was on mine. Best of luck to you.

Thanks everyone! Period always shows up when I travel or something super important.

Happened to me too. Don't stress about it. You're not allowed to wear a tampon during surgery though, so enjoy the pad.

Happened to me. I was embarrassed telling them all but its fine. They will let you have a pad on with disposable underwear. They will take it off to do the cath but i was told it happens alot.

I have an IUD and rarely have periods. Wouldn't you know, it decided to come the morning of my surgery. Thankfully it's super light when it does come, but none the less I was mortified. I told the nurse and she said to not worry about it. That it happens a lot.

Had surgery on 5/10/17. My heaviest day. I wasn't embarrassed as I was sure I wasn't the only one. But after surgery for the next 2 days I clotted like never ever before. And I've had 3 kids. It truly freaked me out.

Were any of you ladies on your period during surgery? Got mine today and my day is Tuesday. My hospital has you completely naked under the gown, wonder how this will go down with the catheter and all.

You may not have a catheter, I know I didnt. The surgery was just over an hour, so they said they saw no need for it.

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On 5/18/2017 at 10:42 PM, NewChiGirl said:

Were any of you ladies on your period during surgery? Got mine today and my day is Tuesday. My hospital has you completely naked under the gown, wonder how this will go down with the catheter and all.

I got mine the day after surgery. I knew to bring supplies. They said it's very common for women to get their period around surgery due to the stress. No big deal. They will give you whatever you need.

On 5/18/2017 at 9:42 PM, NewChiGirl said:

Were any of you ladies on your period during surgery? Got mine today and my day is Tuesday. My hospital has you completely naked under the gown, wonder how this will go down with the catheter and all.

I didn't have a catheter during my surgery. I asked them if I was going to, and they told me they don't put one in you unless you are going to be under a certain amount of time. I can't recall what the time amount was now, but it wasn't going to be long enough for me. Now that doesn't necessarily mean all hospitals are like that, but that was my experience. I was grateful because I hate those things.

when I got my lapband in 10 years ago, I just left my tampon in and didn't say anything. But it was day surgery and no catheter.

Mines came on while sitting in the bed waiting for surgery. I guess nervousness and being anxious for surgery triggered it. The nurses were cool about it. They gave me a diaper type thing and I was on my way. It wasn't too bad from moving to one bed to the operating table.

They will handle it the same way they handle bloody show or discharge during a C-section. I had an induced labor turned emergency C-section after my water broke, and the nurses did not bat an eye at the blood and fluid when putting in the catheter.

I've been on or started my TOM (Time of the month) a couple times for surgery. They gave me a mesh panty and pad. No big deal. I'm almost 5 days sleeve post op. I only had one night at the hospital and there was no Cath thank God.

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