a little over 2 weeks post myo

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Hi all,

Happy Belated Bday Carla!! I don't know what I would have done without this

support group leading up to my surgery!!! You are an awesome woman!

I thought I would update you all. It's been 17 days since my ab myo and I am

feeling great. I go back to work on the 26th. I have my own small business so Im

going back slowly and only working part-time for the first week. I miss working!

I have been going to the beach/out to eat/movies, etc. for the past two weeks

and I feel ready to work out and do yoga energetically but I have noticed if I

try to walk too fast I feel a little " pulling " and uncomfortable feeling in my

abdomen. The incision is healing very nicely. It's just a thin red line about 5 "

long. There is some hardness in the area and my doc said that is a reaction to

the internal sutures and will slowly go away. It doesn't bother me. Underwear or

a bathing suit will cover that area. I have been drinking a tea called " Iron

Woman " by Traditional Medicinals. It has 7% RDA of iron and then I add a

tablespoon of molasses which I believe has another 20% of iron and I am still

taking my iron pills. I think I am still slighly anemic but I do not have that

fatigued/groggy/irritable feeling that I had before. My formerly bloated

abdominal area gets flatter every day. I have lost weight in that area and am

definitely smaller than before the surgery. My doc said my uterus is now the

size of an orange whereas before surgery it was the size of a 14 week pregnancy.

He said I am healing very quickly and I think alot of that is the juices and

foods I am eating. I also drink milk thistle tea (good for the liver), and have

made dietary changes including organic veggies, lots of fish and lower

sugar/alcohol consumption and I am juicing everyday.

The night I got home I remember my boyfriend had rented movies. I told him no

comedies as I knew I couldn't laugh but he did get a comedy of course. We

started to watch it. I was hoping it wouldn't be that funny but it was a Ben

Stiller movie and we both started laughing very soon into it...well I couldn't

stop laughing and neither could he...I was saying to him please stop laughing

and turn off the tv, he couldn't find the remote and we couldn't stop

laughing...well, I also started crying with tears just coming out of my eyes

because I was in so much pain from laughing. It was hurting so bad on my

abdominal area...He felt bad when he saw that I had started crying and finally

found the remote and we turned off that movie and put in a drama...the moral of

the story is I wouldn't recommend funny movies for about 6-7 days post myo. I

also had caught a slight cold and was sneezing like crazy which was painful!

I am so glad to have the myo behind me and now I just want to do whatever I can

do to prevent fibroids from coming back.

wishing you all the best! Looking forward to meeting you SF/Bay Area Ladies at

Herbivore Sunday!!

Pearl