What is best to wear after a hysterectomy
Hysterectomy Tips & Must Haves To Recovery
hey girl it's Lynette like with us TV
take a seat because we need to talk girl
it has been six weeks one two three four
five six weeks I'm about to give you the
nitty gritty I'm gonna give you the
details and I am going to give you some
tips and tricks to get through this
hysterectomy surgery if I can make it
through
so can you let's get started so let me
go ahead and backtrack for you real
quick when I got up from the surgery
table I immediately was greeted with the
news that your total laparoscopic
hysterectomy had to be modified it was a
chance that that was gonna happen and it
did happen so I woke up to a caesarean
cut so my immediate thing was I knew
that they were gonna try to keep me
overnight so the nurse was asking you
know what is your pain level and
honestly it was like a three or four
then and she said for you to say a three
and four we gonna keep monitoring you to
see if it goes a little higher if it
goes higher than maybe a six where wants
to admit you cool that's what I want you
to do cuz I don't want to be at home in
pain my pain level never really
increased so they decided that they were
going to go ahead and send me home I
came home as you can see in the videos
that I posted previously and I had all
of the essentials available to me to
just relax and get through those most
critical days which I considered the
most critical days now for me was day 1
through 3 I learned later that my uterus
wore five pounds yeah I have those
pictures I'm not going to share those
pictures with you cuz they're quite
graphic
first thing you're going to need to do
is you're gonna have to purchase some
essentials I purchased a buttload of
stuff a buttload of stuff that I didn't
need so my advice to you is if you're an
Amazon Prime member order the stuff that
you think you're going to need the week
of surgery that way while you're
recovering you can use what you need to
use and you're able to send back those
things that aren't doing you any good so
that's tip number one tip number two let
me go ahead and tell you what does worse
it's from the grocery store plumb smart
chips this juice right here is going to
loosen everything up after that
anesthesia has clogged everything up
this is very good when I tell you that
it was a lifesaver of getting things to
flow by net with some grapes I had green
grapes and them two together I was
having my beams with in day two next
thing alka-seltzer tablets what you
think these are going to be four is not
what they're for it's not into justif
guess that you're worried about its that
owed to gas that they pump in your belly
to blow it up when you're having
laparoscopic surgery you don't know and
dissipate it gets trapped it travels and
it usually settles right up in here the
next thing peppermint tea was essential
it helping with that gas as well if you
get all three all three of these things
together you can get that stuff moving
what I did was I combined this tea with
a lemon tea because I don't like to
taste the peppermint mix them together
it was so good y'all next thing and this
will not come into play until probably
about week three so for shaping cream
only suggesting is if you absolutely
need it and the people that's going to
need something like this are people that
have natural folds in their skin like I
have a large belly I have a large belly
before the hysterectomy now it's a
deflated large belly
and until I get it toned up I'm chafing
and the chafing hurts so bad so I called
the doctor and he said get some
athlete's foot spray but the spray
nozzle when these are so strong that it
hurts so what I did was I went to the
store and I found some type of anti itch
cream and I use that right now in that
c-section area where I have that fold at
but only do this after you have been
cleared to do so after everything has
stabbed over and healed over then you
can start using things like that in that
area but until then you just don't have
to kind of deal with it the next thing
that aided me tylenol liquid caps this
was recommended to me by the nurse that
was taking care of me she said get the
liquid gels then liquid gels go into
your system like that and you'll be able
to feel the effects of it so much faster
a belly band if you have an HSA or HRA
account disqualifies as a medical
purchase so you can purchase those out
of your health savings accounts as well
if you don't need the belly band for
anything else you're going to need it
for a car ride that car ride home from
the hospital tore me up so whenever I
had to get into a vehicle I will put the
belly band on one as you can see in this
clip right here we were getting ready to
head out and go to dinner and I had to
put the belly band on to keep everything
nice tight secure I don't know if you
would have this issue before a while I
felt like my organs were trying to
settle back in position and I know it
sounds weird but it happens
I felt like my organs were sloshing
around and it was borderline nauseating
if I would turn on from that too right
it will go that's how my guts am I will
put my belly band why it will keep
everything tight the next thing I'll
grab her you're not gonna realize how
much stuff falls in the floor that
you're gonna have to pick up until you
can't pick it up everything falls in the
floor you're in bed and you're trying to
do
Falls in the floor and unless you want
to keep bothering people you're stuck
and the next thing that I'm going to
show you it was something that I
purchased and I was hoping that I didn't
need it but on day one when I went to
lay in that bed and when I went to lay
flat and I could and my belly was being
stretched to a point where I just could
not take it anymore
I remember what they said sleep elevated
this wedge converts and it becomes a
wave that you could sit on and you can
also sleep away and up until about three
weeks ago I was still sleeping on it all
of the things that are able to be bought
on Amazon I would place a link below so
that you can check these things out
protect your peace only let people in to
this journey that absolutely need to be
in it do not just talk about it
willy-nilly because everyone has their
opinion and you always have a
hypochondriac that almost died or know
somebody that almost died from the
surgery
these are the people that you do not
need in your headspace this surgery is
intense its intense emotionally it is
intense mentally it is intense
physically the last thing you need is
outside influences telling you anything
negative if you've gotten to the point
where you scheduled this surgery only
thing that you need to do from that
point one is just go forward it's packed
yourself with knowledge have your
support system on lock it is so
essential to you getting back on your
feet
you get so excited because you are doing
so well that you want everyone to know
and said some of you too were everything
I do is online so if I post a picture
online that's when I started to quickly
learn that I can't share everything with
everyone too soon because then you start
getting the feedback that you're not
ready for the feedback Oh Lynette you're
doing too much
be careful and I know people mean well
but when you get all of that feedback
and you're like I'm not doing anything
I'm sitting on my couch taking a picture
I'm standing in my kitchen boiling an
egg because you know that you're
listening to your body you know that
you're listening to your doctor you're
not doing anything to harm yourself I
had to stop doing social media I just
had to chill and it was cool it took a
while for my energy to come back it took
a while for any of the swelling just
start going down and I am still quite
swollen today at week six I still have
that I can't do too much of one thing at
one time so if I'm sitting I cannot sit
in a setting and just sit there sit
there sit there I gotta get up I gotta
walk around a little bit then when you
walk around and you do that a little bit
then you need to sit so it's a constant
rotation of not being able to do the
same thing for a long duration of time
you can I could not take a shower every
day taking a shower every day was
exhausting I would take a shower and I
would have to get into bed and go to
sleep it would wipe me out so what I
learned to start doing was take my
shower then the next day take a birdbath
start taking your vitamins so go ahead
and get that stuff back into your system
as soon as possible because it will help
aid you in your energy most people say
that they start to feel a little human
around day four I can kind of agree with
that after day three I felt like I had
this in the bag after day three I felt
like I didn't need anymore
medication until week three and it was
so confusing after week two I started to
feel sore again like day 1 day 2
soreness around week 3 I felt like I
could not manage without dulling the
soreness a little bit so I have to take
a couple of these Tylenol and it was so
confusing to me because in my mind once
I'm out of the soreness and out of the
pain how does that go back when I didn't
do anything to get back there you know
I'm saying and what you have to realize
is even though your body is progressing
in a way there are some ways it hasn't
even begin the process yet so whatever
my body started doing in week 3 it kind
of started the sword is all over again
for me not to a point where I felt like
oh my god I'm going to be in the bed I
got to lay down I need to be waited on
hand and foot but definitely to a point
where I needed some things to aim at
week six make 5 and a half weeks sick
I'm starting to have the incision nerve
pain because until now it's been kind of
numb it's felt pretty not because
although I feel good I am still
constantly reminded that I've had
something done my body will let me know
in little ways you just had something
major done to it I still am not able to
wear jeans I cannot wear anything that
has a buckle or have any restriction
around my stomach it is very
uncomfortable not painful just very
uncomfortable your life is going to be
sweats stretch pants yoga pants t-shirts
until indefinitely because I still have
both of my ovaries I have not felt any
different but I will say what is a mind
trick when you have your period because
everything still functions the same you
just
don't believe you still get the mood
swings you get the cravings you onset
bloating and it's really a mind book no
I don't regret it at all
recovery has been a dream for me I could
not ask for a better recovery I just
wish I had did it Sumer years ago I
probably could have avoided this
c-section cut years ago I was scared
six weeks ago I was terrified so with
that said you listen to your body you
listen to the advice of your
gynecologist your doctor and you do
what's best for you
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relax just relax if you can you be off
work as long as you possibly can is it
different
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