Surgery means pain
I have been reading through this thread for months and it has been tremendously helping reading others stories getting ideas on experiences and things that help. I know everyone’s experience will be different and I made no assumptions about my pain levels once I was home.
I am in my recovery room right now. My surgery was today. I have stood three times and walked once. I do not want to scare anyone of course and maybe I’m dumb for not expecting this but I am in agony. Yes I know it was major surgery but no one talked about the intense constant pain. It feels like the Tylenol and Advil are doing nothing and then when I stand I want to die. Again I do not want to scare anyone but I wish someone had prepared me better for how much pain I was going to be in because it’s scaring me. I read people saying by day four or five they are minimal or no pain but were you in agony on day one and two? Am I going to be in this much pain at home too or does it go away fast? How will I go to the bathroom at home? How will I do anything?
For reference I had an open abdominal that ended up being a radical bc of cancer.