kittykitty
01-08-2005, 12:49 PM
Hi all. So on Monday I had a cysto/hydro and laproscopy done to treat endo and scar tissue. I've been in tremendous pain ever since.
My cysto/hydro showed a "perfect" bladder so IC was ruled out (although my uro does say I could still have a "mild" case of it).
This was my third lap in 3 months....and I am in so much pain. The gyno says that it may take a bit to get better this time since he did so much work, but I am afraid that the pain won't go away.
Could what I am feeling not be post-surgery soreness, but a big IC flare?
There is deep pelvic pain (near where the 4 incisions were made) and also in other places. My bladder and urethrea have been irritated since the catheter was removed (it was in for over 24 hrs) - pyridium is helping that though.
Pain has always been my chief symptom - no burning, urgency, frequency. My uro says I could start meds for IC "just in case" but gyno wants me to hold off and see how I heal from surgery first - since the treatment would involve so many pills, etc.
In the interim I am afraid. So scared that the pain won't go away like gyno says and my life will stay like this. I feel like I'm in a bad dream and I am waiting to wake up. I am 32 years old and I feel like my life is over and I want it to be if this is the way things are going to continue. I don't know what to do, I can't carry on like this much longer...
I am so sad all the time. I cry at least once a day - I am trying to figure out why I am still here on this earth if it is only going to mean pain for me and memories of a life that I used to have but can't get to anymore....
My cysto/hydro showed a "perfect" bladder so IC was ruled out (although my uro does say I could still have a "mild" case of it).
This was my third lap in 3 months....and I am in so much pain. The gyno says that it may take a bit to get better this time since he did so much work, but I am afraid that the pain won't go away.
Could what I am feeling not be post-surgery soreness, but a big IC flare?
There is deep pelvic pain (near where the 4 incisions were made) and also in other places. My bladder and urethrea have been irritated since the catheter was removed (it was in for over 24 hrs) - pyridium is helping that though.
Pain has always been my chief symptom - no burning, urgency, frequency. My uro says I could start meds for IC "just in case" but gyno wants me to hold off and see how I heal from surgery first - since the treatment would involve so many pills, etc.
In the interim I am afraid. So scared that the pain won't go away like gyno says and my life will stay like this. I feel like I'm in a bad dream and I am waiting to wake up. I am 32 years old and I feel like my life is over and I want it to be if this is the way things are going to continue. I don't know what to do, I can't carry on like this much longer...
I am so sad all the time. I cry at least once a day - I am trying to figure out why I am still here on this earth if it is only going to mean pain for me and memories of a life that I used to have but can't get to anymore....