Trauma from Lap

[Willow]

Awwww hun, I can TOTALLY relate to this, totally!

My first lap was a nightmare. I had a very large endometrioma (cyst) removed from my left ovary as well as most of that ovary (which I wasn't told at the time ). I was in soooo much pain, I ended up staying overnight because I couldn't get out of bed without fainting and my bp was so low. I lost a lot of blood during surgery and every time they attempted to get me out of bed my drainage wound would spring a leak and I would end up covered in blood. They had to change my clothes 3 times. It was truly, truly awful. They did send me home the next day but I didn't feel at all well enough to leave. It was a day stay hospital so they didn't really have the facilities or staff to keep me any longer.

It took me probably 6 weeks to totally recover, I had almost 4 weeks off work and was in bed for a week after coming home. Being in bed for so long made the shoulder tip pain (from the gas) sooooo awful.

You can imagine my horror when 6 months later my FS went in for a second lap! For future reference, I cannot tell you the difference between the two surgeries!! The second one was a breeze, pain was minimal and I was on my feet and feeling great within a few days. This proved to me what all my drs had told me - the first surgery was not a standard lap, just because a surgery is done by laproscopy, doesn't mean it's a simple procedure.

I now have a fear of hospitals and surgery like you wouldn't believe! But I promise the scars will fade and in time you'll feel better about it.