My surgery went fine and I'm okay. I get the actual results when I go in for my follow-up appointment on Monday.
Yesterday was my hysteroscopy and D&C. I had a choice of general anesthesia or local which I didn't expect. I thought they were always done via general. Actually my doctor had told me it would be done under general anesthesia a few weeks ago. I asked if I could hear everything with a local and the anesthesiologist said yes, so I said, "No! Give me a general. I don't want to hear or see anything."
It took me a while to come out of the anesthesia but that's normal for me. Today my sides are sore as if I had been laughing too hard; and my throat is sore and scratchy from the breathing tube. All in all I feel fine. :smile:
FWIW: This was an invavsive, outpatient procedure. Anytime you have to do a bowel prep prior to a procedure I cringe. Since the resident prescribed Dulcolax (stool softener) rather than a laxative there was no frantic running to the bathroom. :biggrin1:
I should mention, for men who know women that have had either of these procedures and the women had pain or needed a week off from work, that everybody is different.
D&C's are usually the follow-up procedure to a miscarriage, so obviously that has a whole set of emotional pain which goes with it. I wouldn't expect a woman to bounce back after that.
My D&C was because my endometrial lining was too thick at 18 mm. A normal endometrial lining is 5 mm. This extra thickness is part of why I had been experiencing such painful and heavy periods. The other reason is uterine fibroids. The hysteroscopy was to detect the fibroids.
Yesterday was my hysteroscopy and D&C. I had a choice of general anesthesia or local which I didn't expect. I thought they were always done via general. Actually my doctor had told me it would be done under general anesthesia a few weeks ago. I asked if I could hear everything with a local and the anesthesiologist said yes, so I said, "No! Give me a general. I don't want to hear or see anything."
It took me a while to come out of the anesthesia but that's normal for me. Today my sides are sore as if I had been laughing too hard; and my throat is sore and scratchy from the breathing tube. All in all I feel fine. :smile:
FWIW: This was an invavsive, outpatient procedure. Anytime you have to do a bowel prep prior to a procedure I cringe. Since the resident prescribed Dulcolax (stool softener) rather than a laxative there was no frantic running to the bathroom. :biggrin1:
I should mention, for men who know women that have had either of these procedures and the women had pain or needed a week off from work, that everybody is different.
D&C's are usually the follow-up procedure to a miscarriage, so obviously that has a whole set of emotional pain which goes with it. I wouldn't expect a woman to bounce back after that.
My D&C was because my endometrial lining was too thick at 18 mm. A normal endometrial lining is 5 mm. This extra thickness is part of why I had been experiencing such painful and heavy periods. The other reason is uterine fibroids. The hysteroscopy was to detect the fibroids.