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I am glad your surgery went so smoothly!

I am glad your surgery went so smoothly, thats great to hear. I am curious... did they give you progesterone to help the lining of the uterus recover? I am wondering if they gave that to me because I had a septum removed as well or if it is a normal thing to prescribe after uterine surgery. Good luck on TTC in July! I am sure its such a relief to have the surgery behind you and now you can look forward to the fun stuff!

Hi all -
skn331 - they did not give me progesterone. Not even anitbiaotics which I thought was odd. Yesterday they took my staples out (I had 15). I went off the percocet within 1 day of being home because it gave me the WORST nightmares! I feel ok though, just pretty sore. Doc said my uterus looks like the stitching on Ragedy Ann! I had 5 firbroids removed, the biggest being 5.6 cm! Wow! My question to anyone, I had a flat stomache before this (I had lipo 7 years ago). Now there is this 2" wide "bump" or pouch" going across the entire incision. Doc says this won't go away! Does anyone know? Is this just swelling? Oh and you get bruising around the incision but this will go away.

MelissaK -- I have not had a flat stomach for many years, but it has been nearly 5 weeks since my surgery and my stomach is much flatter than before surgery. And it still seems to be improving.

It's a weird thing. It looks like a little shelf. I was all worked up about it last night calling it "reverse lipo". I guess time will tell. It's probably just the uterus being swollen, and the abs. W - what an outstanding side effect to your myo! I am going to start wearing the Neosporin Scar strips next week when the final bandages (it's just tape now) comes off. For what it's worth, I am still completely surprised how easy it went, and the pain is really no big deal, just a little sore. So if anyone is about to have a myo and is nervous, it's actually a non-event once you go through it.

Shannon: Congratulations on having the baby! This is great news. God is good! Stacey: I am trying to hang in there. The new dr. gave me a new pain killer that has me high as a kite. I took one pill 8 days ago and have not have a pain since. However, I still feel very uncomfortable. Melissa, I am glad that your surgery went well. Has any one had an amniocentesis?

I'm supposed to have an ammnio too, starting at 36 weeks and will keep getting them until the baby's lungs are mature and they do a c-section. I have heard that they are kind of risky.... not to mention watching that huge needle go into your belly!!!! So I second the question, anyone here had one?

Hi Ladies:

Sorry to keep asking this question but there must be SOMEONE out there who has this same problem.

My myo was 8 days ago and it went very smoothly. However, I have this like sausage sized roll under the incision. It's freaking me out, it looks comical. Anyone had this with their myo? Is it something popping out between the abdominal muscles? Will it go away?

I have a friend who had her gallbladder out (not a myo..but same area lol). She had that after surgery too...and it did go away. Was just swollen from the surgery. She said it felt like a growth. Dunno if that helps or not :o)

Just an update: I am 22 weeks now with 4 fibroids./ I started having contractions friday night and by saturday night they were 4 to 5 minutes apart while laying down. I went to the hospital and they did a swab test that said I was not in pre-term labor, so the guess is I was having contractions due to the fibroids irritating my uterus. I was given a soft muscle relaxer to stop them. It has slowed them down considerably. I am also taking motrin. Doc said that test they did says with 99% certainly that I will not go ionto labor within the next two weeks, which is great news. I am on that border line of viability for my baby. Of course I dont want him born at 24 weeks either, but better 24 then 22. I am supposed to stay off my feet and avoid anything that aggravates contractions and call if they get stronger. how is everyone else doing?

skn331 - OMG, how scary. I agree though, 24 weeks is viable, nobody wants it to happen but plenty of kids born premmie are just fine.Just a little extra TLC for the first few months. You'll make it thogh, this MUST be an isolated incident and it will go away now (I hope)

Hi Ladies - Quick update to my stupid problem of the "sausage" behind my incision. I went to the doc and there is a MASSIVE build up of fluid... so we are waiting it out one week and if it is not gone they will have topen it back up to drain it!! And my Myo and recovery has been SO picture perfect and uncomplicated. Ho hum. At least I was able to get an u/s (to look at the fluid - it was clear) and the doc was able to view her internal handy work (stiches, uterus) and she was very proud of the job she did :) . Ho hum, what a pain!

MelissaK, good to hear you are resolving your sausage roll. How did the fluid get there? let us know if you have to have it drained or not.

skn331 - How are you holding up? Did the situation improve a bit? I THINK (not sure - it's hard to tell) the sausage is going down a little... tommorrow is our follow up appt. Other than that, today is 2 weeks past the MYO and I feel fantastic! I really want to be able to work out again though because I feel like I just sit around eating and whining about the sausage of an incision I have! (BTW, I must admit the doc made what I think will be a great looking scar, it looks great at only 2 weeks. I hope she does not have to re-open and destroy her handy work!)

I called my doctor this morning because the the terbutaline they gave me to stop the contractions did NOTHING! My doc told me to take ibuprofen 600 mg three times a day so I did that today and it helped tremedously. I had such a good day. He is also going to have me come in every other Friday to do that cervical swab test to check for pre-term labor. That way we can know whether or not to "worry" about the contractions.

skn331 - That's great news! Good thing you have docs who are attentive - sometimes I read posts where docs are so nonchalant. I had my FU today to look at my prob with the incision and my doc brought in the other doc and they're like "Oh, that's clearly a fat deposit. It probably won't fully go away but we'll try to manipulate it a bit when you get PG and have the C section later on." I'm like "WTF!!!!!" I had lipo 7 years ago and they're wondering if it is related. They told me I can get plastic surgery later and it should resolve it. It's so irritating. I mean really! I got PG last year and all was dandy then I was unfortunate (mc) and now this. Can't wait to have to deal with this in a bathing suit. I want to start our family but come on! Why is this so hard!