Just had my surgery & the recovery was a nightmare
DO NOT LET THIS SCARE YOU FROM YOUR SURGERY: To be clear, i love my surgeon a lot - he is an excision specialist and very knowledgeable. I do not have any of the classic endo symptoms, just pain with sex, and he felt some lesions during the surgery. I woke up and was told they removed endometriosis on my uterus and endosalpingiosis. When i woke up, i had a lot of pain on my belly button to my pubic bone but was discharged that day. The next day, recovery was fine, just very sleepy.
However, my legs had begun to shake and twitch. By four days after my surgery, i was uncontrollably having “spasms” in my arms and legs, sweating profusely, snd struggling to walk. Of course, our phone carrier was having issues so i couldn’t call my surgeon so we just went straight to the ER, where i was immediately seem and diagnosed with Serotonin Syndrome. My body was uncontrollably shaking, i was dripping in sweat, my blood pressure and heart rate were elevated and my pupils were so large. Turns out my normal SSRI that i was clears to take, interacted with the pain medication causing this. I was in the hospital for three days, at one point having a male doctor try to just refer me to psych because he didn’t believe it (being told im faking it in the middle of a health crisis). I’m home now because i’ve begged to go home because the hospital honestly was terrible, but my vision and stability and balance are still bad - my mom has to walk to me the bathroom and my bed and i’ve fallen once.
TLDR: check a million times about if you can take your antidepressants with pain meds, and if you start shaking more than post-anesthesia shakes, call your surgeon