by Deleted User 4594 » 02 Oct 2015, 10:19
Surgery recovery
As I mentioned in my first post I had a hemorrhoidectomy and spinctorotomy done. The surgery it's self only took about an hour. I was in the recovery room for about 15 mins before awaking from my doctor induced slumber. Soon after I was drinking water, eating jello and speaking with the nurse as it is required before they would release me to my wife so that I can go home. The doctor had informed my wife while I had been out that this would be the most painful surgery recovery I will ever feel worse then giving birth (although I'm male so I will never be able to compare). We left the hospital armed with me and a handful of prescriptions which consisted of Percocet, adavan, 800 mg Motrin, and lidocaine gel 2.5%. The hospital was only a half hour drive from my home but we had to stop to submit the scripts and wait for them to be filled about an hour wait. So to put things into perspective an hour after leaving the hospital I was all ready starting to feel the pain. I sat quietly in my wife's car crying as I waited for her to return with my pills. I certainly didn't expect to be in pain so soon after the surgery. My wife did her best to rush me home so I could lay down. By the time I got home I had taken two Percocets and one adavan (muscle) relaxer. I was starting to feel a bit more relaxed so begins my time of a month and a half sleeping on an air mattress as I didn't want to disturb my wife at night or risk taking a knee to the butt while she slept. I had a steady soft diet of ice cream, jello, pudding and protein shakes (protein powder, almond milk, peanut butter, ice). Since I was taking narcotics I had to balance it out by taking 2 dulcolax stool softners and fiber drinks, about a gallon of water a day and an occasional ginger ale to settle the tummy when it wasn't happy about the morning pills. Like clock work I visit the bathroom every day and the day after surgery was no exception. It was quite painful, there was blood and it felt like my butt was ripped wide open by some blunt device. I was not prepared for that at all. I'm screamed because of the initial pain, but then because of the sheer burning and immediate swelling of colon. Jumping into the shower to let warms water run over the area seemed to bring down the pain slightly but not much. Pain management has gone out the window. I would spend hours in the tub or the shower trying to ease my pain. It was like I was experience the same symptoms I originally went to see the doctor for but the pain was 10x worse. So let's fast forward a month goes by of this and it's finally time for my first post op check up. I'm still in tremendous pain, and I have a new symptom as it has become very hard to have a bowel movement it takes a large amount of effort for me to pass a BM and with it extreme agony during and after the BM with lingering pain for hours afterwards. I told my doctor this yet she couldn't perform an exam due to the pain I was in. She was shocked to hear I was not feeling better, then decided to tell me i might part of a small percentage of people who will always be in pain. I was almost out of drugs, but that didn't seem to matter as they were now doing nothing to curve the pain the doctor also didn't offer to give me anything else. Next post will have information about my 2nd post op doctors visit and me returning to work.