u/mtn-goat-mt

Yall I'm freaking out a little. When I came out of recovery a week ago from the MTS stent and left ovarian coil and both ovarian vein sclerotherapy, the bad left leg pain and heaviness was gone. Yesterday, 6 days out, the left leg pain was back with a vengeance. Surgeon's nurse said it was likely nerve and inflammation related. This morning it was gone and I was able to go out and run errands for the first time and this evening my left leg is so heavy and tired. Someone pleeeeease tell me this is normal for the recovery and not the procedure failing. I've never had anything like this done so I have no idea what to expect.

hi yall,

After what has been a long and needlessly arduous journey, I'm finally 3 days post treatment for MTS and PCS. My left iliac vein is stented, my left ovarian vein was embolized, and both ovarian veins received sclerotherapy. Christ on his throne I did not anticipate the pain to be this, uh, painful. I also started my period the night before the procedure, so the area is already pissed.

So for those of you who have experienced this, when does it let up? It seems laying down flat hurts my pelvic area the most. It feels like there's a constant "stitch" in my right pelvis, which was always my problem area aside from my left leg. Even breathing deep aggravates it, seemingly anything that activates lower abdominal muscles. Anything that bends my hips relieves it - to a degree, as long as my back is supported - but bending forward is a biscuit. The lower back pain and the pelvic pain feels kind of like labor and even reminiscent of the back labor I had 18 years ago. It kind of pinches and twitches, if that makes sense. Like a pelvic charley horse. But constant and it grabs me pretty good.

I figured 3 days out it would get less intense. How long did it take yall to feel back to "normal"? I wait tables and play music for a living so everything I do has a pretty physical element to it. I started taking ibuprofen instead of hydrocodone today so haven't had anything substantial for pain in ~36 hours. I'm trying to be mindful of rebound symptoms and as a sober alcoholic get weird about taking addictive substances. I think I may give in and take one.

On the upside, I noticed an improvement in my left leg pain almost immediately on waking up in recovery. So all that said, I can't decide if I'm a giant baby or if this really does hurt. And why does the right side hurt worse than the left?

Thanks for reading 🫶