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Am I Right In Thinking....
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....That it takes longer to recover from a laparoscopy (for cholecystectomy) that one imagines it will? I had my op last Saturday and this morning, my OH and I took a sedate mooch around town and visited the library. By the time we got home, I was a mess-tired, achey and wimpily weepy. I feel that I should at least have regained some stamina by now or am I expecting too much of this 65 year old bod?
Any ideas will be very welcome.
Best wishes
Maz xx
Any ideas will be very welcome.
Best wishes
Maz xx
Answers
It has been less than a week since you had surgery. Give yourself a chance. The surgery may have been keyhole but the anaesthetic can take a while to get over. Another week or two and you will feel fine, I am sure. No use comparing yourself to other people as regards recovery time as everyone is different and.....I hesitate to say this, but I have often suspected...
20:30 Fri 17th Jul 2015
No, it took me longer than I thought it would. I had to leave the house due to one of my wounds breaking open but it was hard going being out, especially as I don't drive (bumpy city buses!). I was just about back to normal when I went back to work after two weeks off. I was too optimistic with my recovery.
It has been less than a week since you had surgery.
Give yourself a chance.
The surgery may have been keyhole but the anaesthetic can take a while to get over.
Another week or two and you will feel fine, I am sure.
No use comparing yourself to other people as regards recovery time as everyone is different and.....I hesitate to say this, but I have often suspected people of being less than frank about their recovery time....'I was hill-walking the next day ' sort of thing....Having had a lot of surgeries myself I take these stories with a pinch of salt.
Give yourself a chance.
The surgery may have been keyhole but the anaesthetic can take a while to get over.
Another week or two and you will feel fine, I am sure.
No use comparing yourself to other people as regards recovery time as everyone is different and.....I hesitate to say this, but I have often suspected people of being less than frank about their recovery time....'I was hill-walking the next day ' sort of thing....Having had a lot of surgeries myself I take these stories with a pinch of salt.
Thank you all for your replies and good advice. Sqad, re the bruises round the incisions, on the care plan I was given on discharge, it said to expect bruising and not to worry. I should think they waggle the instruments around a fair bit during the procedure so is that what could cause the bruising?
Luv Maz xx
Luv Maz xx
// .I hesitate to say this, but I have often suspected people of being less than frank about their recovery time....'I was hill-walking the next day ' sort of thing....Having had a lot of surgeries myself I take these stories with a pinch of salt.//
and there is even a technical name for this - recall-bias
I read the OP and thought christ I felt crap after radiotherapy and hemicolectomy for about a year ....
and clearly I am different to the orig poster - different diagnosis, operation, post op treatment and so on
and there is even a technical name for this - recall-bias
I read the OP and thought christ I felt crap after radiotherapy and hemicolectomy for about a year ....
and clearly I am different to the orig poster - different diagnosis, operation, post op treatment and so on