by Tryingtorelax » 22 Jun 2019, 17:37
Post Op Day 4
Uneventful day. Slept for 4 hours straight last night. Then for 3 more. I’ll take it. I’ve been getting up every night/morning at 3:30 am. Guess the pain wakes me up. Then I take ibuprofen. BM this morning was more like diarrhea so I didn’t do any miralax today. Still did 2 stool softeners because that’s what I was doing before the surgery. Don’t know if I’ll have any more BMs before bedtime. If it’s the same consistency as this morning I’ll drop down to 1 stool softener a day. Maybe. Did my sitz baths and showers and ice packs and heating pad. The swelling is not any better...yet. The skin outside of the swollen side is very tender, raw, and sore. I think I may have lost a stitch but I really don’t know. Ate the same things I’ve been eating. Only thing new I ate was a piece of multigrain bread. Drank 68+ ounces of water. 20 grams of fiber. I’m trying to add more food and fiber slowly. Before surgery I was getting 22-26 grams of fiber every day and sometimes that was too much. My appetite is coming back which is good but also making it hard not to want other kinds of foods that my body is not ready for yet. Pain was fine with ibuprofen. Still the same kind of pain-stinging and sore. Pain is worse around BMs but still better than before surgery. I have no idea if that Exparel has worn off or not. I’m giving it till Monday before I think it’s fully worn off. That’ll be 5 days after my surgery. Tried to lay on my sides today rather than my back. Walked around a bit. I was walking better today than I have been. Still taking it slow.