recovery procedure from a hysterectomy - Part 4

First week – I spent the first week in bed all I did was read books and magazines. I had a slight pinching type of pain for the most of the week apart from that everything was fine. It is worth noting that I believe it is essential that you have someone with you, as you are pretty helpless for the first week, I was lucky as my husband works from home so I had 24 hour support. While I was in bed I spent a lot of time doing the exercises that the hospital had recommended. This mainly consisted of the following exercises: Knee rolling, knee bends, pelvic tilting, and pelvic floor muscle exercise.

The second week – things changed drastically on the second week. I started to feel quite sick and half way through the night I started to vomit violently and my whole body was shaking. My husband tried to contact the hospital where I had the operation but was unable to get an answer so he then contacted our local GP and was advised to take me to a local hospital. Getting to the hospital was quite a nightmare I was consistently being sick in the car. Luckily when we arrived at the hospital I was seen to straight away, to be honest at one stage I thought I was going to die. Apparently my body had gone into shock and was told that this was quite common after an operation. I was given a thorough examination by the doctor I was quite surprised to find that my temperature was normal and my blood pressure was normal. I finally stop being sick and felt a lot better The doctor prescribed a number of drugs for sickness,heartburn and constipation He did say that being constipated could have been the main reason that my body went into shock. The good news was that I was allowed to go home and the whole experience only lasted about three hours. I spent the next 48 hours sleeping and afterwards I felt a lot better.