Can I have a hysterectomy and not miss work?

[beachlover9395]

I'm a stay-at-home mom and I can tell you, I didn't feel good or feel like myself for 6 weeks! Now, I do tend to swell worse than others and it always takes me longer to heal and get over anesthesia effects, but I can't imagine having a hysterectomy and then going back to work a few days later.

You have one chance to heal correctly - you should have at least a week off, if not longer. This is not getting a mole removed - this is very invasive surgery. If you don't take the proper time to heal, you can have problems that will be with you for possibly the rest of your life and potentially have to have repair work done in the future. Heal once and heal right.

 

[princessnoelly]

I had mine done 15 months ago and I wouldn't chance it.

I had some complications and was put back in the hospital- plus I went home the first time with a catheter (my kids loved watching my "pee bag"). My complications weren't big- slight fever but I started having BIG clots. Worst pain was an exam 4 days after and I didn't have any drugs with labor. Mine was done all ******lly. I'd worry about the pain from the gas with the lapro.

The big thing is your tired.

If you could schedule it where there was a holiday so you could be off the Monday too. Maybe memorial day? We scheduled mine before our kids Christmas break so we didn't have to pay for camp. However, I was in the hospital the first few days of their vacation so it was pointless and so stoned during Christmas.

Good luck! Life minus a uterus is great- it's great not being sick all the time.

 

[minkydog]

What is it about gas getting into your shoulder after surgery? UGH!!! That was the worst for me too!

The gas isn't actually up in your shouler. It's trapped under the diaphragm. I know, weird huh? They have to blow up your abdomen with gas so they don't accidently poke a hole in something and they can see everything well. But they can't get all the gas out. The gas has no where to go but up. The pain is called referred pain because the pain is felt in another place, rather than at the site of the real pain.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Depends if your going to have some vacation time to use.

Also how your surgeon is going about it. It was cut hip bone to hip bone.

 

[Leajess99]

I had a hyst in October 2005 with the abdominal cut and was fine 2 weeks later. I never could have done it in 3 days though.

OP - Please take it easy and try not to rush it.

 

[swandiverpatt]

The main thing I remember is that you cannot drive until you can stomp your foot (as if stomping on the brakes) without it causing abdominal pain, and you can't lift anything heavier than a jug of milk for a certain amount of time.

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I had my hysterectomy in Indianapolis, too - -and I suspect we had the same doctor because that's what she told me! (We lived in Lafayette and I was willing to drive to Indy for this doctor -- Dr. White?)