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Recovery
by: carleen on Wed, Nov 04 2009
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I’m a 33 year old female, and I just had surgery on 10/30/2009. It went fine, according to the doctors; my entire sigmoid colon was taken out, but I knew that going in. Today’s 11/3/09, and I’m still in the hospital. I have problems with solid foods–they bring pain and nausea. I can’t leave the hospital until I show that I can eat solid foods, so I’m trying to force myself to eat. As for the experience, it really wasn’t as bad as I thought. I’d been reading all over the internet and was scared from the various postings when there wasn’t a need to be. Of course there was pain after the surgery, but I had so many drugs pumped into me that it wasn’t so bad. Now, I’m taking pain meds only as needed (about every 6-8 hours or so) which also isn’t bad considering it’s only day 4. I wish someone had written about the first BM’s after surgery. They make a lot of noise, and mine was completely blood, which I later found out was normal. I still haven’t had another one that was as much as the first one, and that worries me since constipation got me here in the first place. Hopefully I’ll leaving tonight or tomorrow morning because most of the pain I feel is from the hospital bed, not the surgery itself.
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    I’m a 33 year old female, and I just had surgery on 10/30/2009. It went fine, according to the doctors; my entire sigmoid colon was taken out, but I knew that going in. Today’s 11/3/09, and I’m still in the hospital. [more..]

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