My Surgery Went Fine

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.

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Thank providence you're in one piece. Surgery is tough. Take it easy NJ, I say take it down to a mere F3 for a week or so before you take it back up to F5!
 
Take good care of yourself, rest and soon you'll be all better. I will send good thoughts your way.
 
Take care of yourself, NJ. Good to hear that the surgery went fine and that it's in the past. Hope you get relief from what sent you under the knife ...
 

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