Re: Myo thoughts

[Guest guest]

I hope your recovery goes well !

I'm intrigued by the staples comment. I had staples on an abdom myo

horizontal incision, and it worked very well for me. They looked

pretty much like office staples, they were removed at the tail end

of the week of my operation and their removal didn't hurt. There

were dot marks where the staples went in that quickly healed and

vanished. I had no problems with them at all.

Aztek

[Guest guest]

I hope your recovery goes well !

I'm intrigued by the staples comment. I had staples on an abdom myo

horizontal incision, and it worked very well for me. They looked

pretty much like office staples, they were removed at the tail end

of the week of my operation and their removal didn't hurt. There

were dot marks where the staples went in that quickly healed and

vanished. I had no problems with them at all.

Aztek

[Guest guest]

I hope your recovery goes well !

I'm intrigued by the staples comment. I had staples on an abdom myo

horizontal incision, and it worked very well for me. They looked

pretty much like office staples, they were removed at the tail end

of the week of my operation and their removal didn't hurt. There

were dot marks where the staples went in that quickly healed and

vanished. I had no problems with them at all.

Aztek

[Guest guest]

Hi

It was good to read your are doing OK

I am scheduled for my abdominal myo on the 5th may

I have 8.5cm, 4.5cm and 3 x 1.5cm fibroids and one polyp

My gyno is removing the polyp first internally and doing a curette

and then performing the myo.

I am really scared of the recovery as I had a brain tumour 4 years

ago and it has been such a long slow recovery for that and I know who

I felt after that surgery. He assures me it will be nothing like

that. I hope not.

My surgery for my head was 10 hrs so surly the myo wont take that

long.

Wish me luck

> Hi everyone!

> I'm now 4 days post-op from my myo and I just wanted to share some

> of my experinces with anyone else who's about to go under the knife.

> I had decided on an epidural and heavy sedation instead of general

> anesthetic. The most painful part of pre-op was actually the

> lidocaine injection they put into my hand prior to the heplock! The

> epidural didn't hurt at all.

> My surgery went very well. The doctor took out the big fibroid as

> well as 3 others. She found no endometriosis and no damage to other

> organs. And she didn't use staples (whew!). The only complication

> at all was that the epidural wasn't working on my right side so not

> only was my left side very numb, but my right side was VERY

painful.

> After trying many different drugs, we discovered that Oxycodone

> worked the best with the least side effects.

> I was extremely lucky in that since I used to work at the hospital

> where I was operated on and I knew a lot of the staff there, they

> put me into a private room. That was VERY helpful.

> Anyway, here are some things I have learned that I would like to

> pass on to you all:

>

> 1.The more pillows you use around you, the better.

> 2.Bring a CD/cassette player with relaxation CDs or soft relaxing

> music. (hospitals are NOISY and no matter how sleepy you are, it's

> difficult to sleep)

> 3.When you are recovering in the hospital, remember to take deep

> breaths, often.

> 4. Drink TONS of liquids in the hospital

> 5. A maternity belt is your new best friend!!

> 6. Learn to use your arms and legs to move yourself instead of your

> stomach muscles.

>

> If anyone has any questions they like to ask me, feel free to email

> me directly at tsamelliott@m...

>

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