If you open the Quora question, you’ll see this answer is from an AI ChatBot. If you read the answers from actual doctors, they give you a very different explanation.
Be careful in assuming that the first Google search result is the correct one. You want to read laterally. When you find a piece of information, you want to figure out who provided the info and what their background is, and how recent the info is. Then open up some other tabs, and read more about it (preferably articles from trusted organizations or published scientific papers). See what experts are saying. Go from there.
I hope your leg feels better, and happy healing!
My experts just tell me to lose weight by intermittent fasting but also eating 30g of protein within 30 mins of waking, low fat, high carb, low carb, high fat, take it easy, but not too easy, and use nsaids but not every day only when it hurts which is every day. I just keep looking for anything to make me feel better and or explain what’s happening. It’s all confusing and frustrating.
Lord. Doctors aren’t very good at weight loss or nutrition lol. You don’t have to intermittent fast, just choose the best way for you to eat in a calorie deficit, with mostly nutritionally dense foods. But still with treats sometimes, for the soul.
NSAIDs work best with Tylenol. Take them with food :). It helps to stay ahead of the pain, actually. Playing catch up usually leads to taking MORE painkillers in the long run. Doctors are also very often weirdly not good at treating pain.
Ginger is anti inflammatory and a muscle relaxer so you can blend a thumb of ginger with some orange juice and it’s actually quite helpful.
Pelvic Floor Therapy from a good pelvic floor physiotherapist is a literal life saver, and doctors rarely recommend that.
I am sorry you are having such a rough recovery! I know how frustrating it is when no one can tell you exactly what is happening with your body, and I understand the search for a reason. I truly hope you get some answers soon.
I had bad leg pain after c-section, still get it from time to time three years later. The only thing that really helped was physical therapy for my pelvic floor. I will be asking for this again when I have my hysterectomy.
I've had a lot of weird pains, especially in the legs, since my surgery in 2021. For me, a lot of it comes down to how rough my healing period was. My body was so traumatized and so protective of my abdomen for so long I basically started curving inward. The motions that make or keep the gracilis strong also ask the core to be strong, so, to work the one out is to work the other out and I've been completely unable to entertain the idea of doing abdominal or core workouts for the last two years. Time and consistently discomforting effort have afforded me enough healing to finally take some baby steps toward getting strong again, but the bottom line is: Take care of yourself. These surgeries are so much more impactful than we fully understand.
Yes! I’m 4 months post op and had an abdominal hysterectomy and my body went through it. Really rough healing period. I’m definitely better now but each month is like some fresh new hell.
Yep. Pretty crazy to realize our abdomens were cut in half and parts of our body were ripped out. If what happened to us had happened due to something like a car accident or a fall off a mountain or something, we would expect so much less of ourselves, and so would everyone else! Yet for some reason we are expected to get back to work after 3, 4, 6 weeks?? Get back to working out after 2 months? 3 months? No way. I know everyone is different and we all heal at different rates, but it took me personally a whole year before I even started to allow the reality of the loss to hit home. Then I felt victimized for a year, and that started impacting me emotionally which has implications in the body... only in the last few months have I been able to actually sit with myself, grounded in my body, with grace and compassion for my own self. Only now am I starting to feel like I'm "on the other side" of the metaphorical mountain. What a process!
My surgery was in August of 2021, so it's been 2 years and 4 months. But, several factors delayed my healing by a lot - the first being that my surgery experience was horribly traumatic (I woke up from anesthesia in the surgical suite and was denied any pain killers for over 8 hours immediately after my surgery. The pain was basically torture.) - and the second being that only 3 months after my surgery I was sort of forced by circumstances to run my body ragged working heavy duty manual labor 12+ hours/day for 5 months with only a few days off during that whole time (this is a long story, but the point is I wasn't able to focus on my own health at all. I pushed myself way beyond my limits, and the effect on my body was severe. During that time, I pulled several muscles, dislocated my hip, developed an auto-immune condition, and, despite being basically constantly physically active, I still managed to gain 30 pounds.)
Not everyone's healing journey will be as trying or take as long as mine did, but the moral of my story is that respecting the body's strengths and limitations is really crucial in the healing process, and the healing process may not be convenient in any way. That we expect it to be so, I think, is a woeful failing of our cultural norms.
I'm 3 weeks PO and still feel like hell. This week is been rectum pain. Incredibly sharp, excruciating pain. And I'm just like... I have to go back to work and function like this?
My doctor wanted me to take six weeks off, and I was like, I can't do that. I took a week off and worked from home the second week. I went for my two-week checkup and was in TEARS because I still felt so horrible (and she was PISSED I was even working at all!); she wrote me a note to continue WFH until after the New Year.
My boss doesn't get it though, he's like, doesn't she know you don't have a physical job? And I'm trying to explain to him that it's not about just lifting something. My insides were mangled and parts ripped out. I'm exhausted, I can't think clearly, I can't drive as far as I have to and then sit in an office chair for 8-9 hours and drive home...
Gahhhh.
Good luck on your continued recovery.
I can say that at week 5 I felt so much better but not a second before then. I also had a bonus intestinal block that ended me up in the hospital for a week around week 4 so the week 5 boost was mostly happiness to be alive and being well hydrated from the hospital maybe. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Good lord, don't believe this cr*p. Go talk to an actual specialist if you are having discomfort. A lot of people like to complain, make up horror stories and all sorts of BS. The internet can be helpful, but take it as a grain of salt, especially when it's just anonymous posts
Hardly anyone talks about the body’s reaction to the removal of organs and the trauma to ligaments. Your body is built as a whole unit. While it’s sometimes necessary, removal of pieces of the whole have ripple effects. It’s an amputation. I’ve had major lower back pain since my laproscopic total hysterectomy, despite multiple docs telling me I’d be 100% in no time. I tried pelvic floor PT but the therapist told me my pelvic floor was strong and so she attempted to address tightness in my hips and her program just made me feel worse. I’ve been a massage therapist for 20 years and finally decided to trust my own knowledge and just started working on strength and mobility. I still have pain some days but it’s vastly improved as I strengthen my body. I don’t expect to ever feel exactly the same as before, but I do expect that I’ll get back to feeling good the majority of the time! Unfortunately every single person is different and it’s a giant game of trial and error to find what will work for you. But I wish things like this were talked about more
Interesting. I started ballet again after years and a hysterectomy 3 years ago and noticed right away that I’ve lost hip flexibility. It’s getting better but still I’m not back to what I was!
If you open the Quora question, you’ll see this answer is from an AI ChatBot. If you read the answers from actual doctors, they give you a very different explanation. Be careful in assuming that the first Google search result is the correct one. You want to read laterally. When you find a piece of information, you want to figure out who provided the info and what their background is, and how recent the info is. Then open up some other tabs, and read more about it (preferably articles from trusted organizations or published scientific papers). See what experts are saying. Go from there. I hope your leg feels better, and happy healing!
My experts just tell me to lose weight by intermittent fasting but also eating 30g of protein within 30 mins of waking, low fat, high carb, low carb, high fat, take it easy, but not too easy, and use nsaids but not every day only when it hurts which is every day. I just keep looking for anything to make me feel better and or explain what’s happening. It’s all confusing and frustrating.
Lord. Doctors aren’t very good at weight loss or nutrition lol. You don’t have to intermittent fast, just choose the best way for you to eat in a calorie deficit, with mostly nutritionally dense foods. But still with treats sometimes, for the soul. NSAIDs work best with Tylenol. Take them with food :). It helps to stay ahead of the pain, actually. Playing catch up usually leads to taking MORE painkillers in the long run. Doctors are also very often weirdly not good at treating pain. Ginger is anti inflammatory and a muscle relaxer so you can blend a thumb of ginger with some orange juice and it’s actually quite helpful. Pelvic Floor Therapy from a good pelvic floor physiotherapist is a literal life saver, and doctors rarely recommend that.
I am sorry you are having such a rough recovery! I know how frustrating it is when no one can tell you exactly what is happening with your body, and I understand the search for a reason. I truly hope you get some answers soon.
Thank you! Knowing I’m not alone helps and also kind comments from internet strangers. ❤️
I had bad leg pain after c-section, still get it from time to time three years later. The only thing that really helped was physical therapy for my pelvic floor. I will be asking for this again when I have my hysterectomy.
I've had a lot of weird pains, especially in the legs, since my surgery in 2021. For me, a lot of it comes down to how rough my healing period was. My body was so traumatized and so protective of my abdomen for so long I basically started curving inward. The motions that make or keep the gracilis strong also ask the core to be strong, so, to work the one out is to work the other out and I've been completely unable to entertain the idea of doing abdominal or core workouts for the last two years. Time and consistently discomforting effort have afforded me enough healing to finally take some baby steps toward getting strong again, but the bottom line is: Take care of yourself. These surgeries are so much more impactful than we fully understand.
Yes! I’m 4 months post op and had an abdominal hysterectomy and my body went through it. Really rough healing period. I’m definitely better now but each month is like some fresh new hell.
Yep. Pretty crazy to realize our abdomens were cut in half and parts of our body were ripped out. If what happened to us had happened due to something like a car accident or a fall off a mountain or something, we would expect so much less of ourselves, and so would everyone else! Yet for some reason we are expected to get back to work after 3, 4, 6 weeks?? Get back to working out after 2 months? 3 months? No way. I know everyone is different and we all heal at different rates, but it took me personally a whole year before I even started to allow the reality of the loss to hit home. Then I felt victimized for a year, and that started impacting me emotionally which has implications in the body... only in the last few months have I been able to actually sit with myself, grounded in my body, with grace and compassion for my own self. Only now am I starting to feel like I'm "on the other side" of the metaphorical mountain. What a process!
So how long has it been for you?
My surgery was in August of 2021, so it's been 2 years and 4 months. But, several factors delayed my healing by a lot - the first being that my surgery experience was horribly traumatic (I woke up from anesthesia in the surgical suite and was denied any pain killers for over 8 hours immediately after my surgery. The pain was basically torture.) - and the second being that only 3 months after my surgery I was sort of forced by circumstances to run my body ragged working heavy duty manual labor 12+ hours/day for 5 months with only a few days off during that whole time (this is a long story, but the point is I wasn't able to focus on my own health at all. I pushed myself way beyond my limits, and the effect on my body was severe. During that time, I pulled several muscles, dislocated my hip, developed an auto-immune condition, and, despite being basically constantly physically active, I still managed to gain 30 pounds.) Not everyone's healing journey will be as trying or take as long as mine did, but the moral of my story is that respecting the body's strengths and limitations is really crucial in the healing process, and the healing process may not be convenient in any way. That we expect it to be so, I think, is a woeful failing of our cultural norms.
I'm 3 weeks PO and still feel like hell. This week is been rectum pain. Incredibly sharp, excruciating pain. And I'm just like... I have to go back to work and function like this? My doctor wanted me to take six weeks off, and I was like, I can't do that. I took a week off and worked from home the second week. I went for my two-week checkup and was in TEARS because I still felt so horrible (and she was PISSED I was even working at all!); she wrote me a note to continue WFH until after the New Year. My boss doesn't get it though, he's like, doesn't she know you don't have a physical job? And I'm trying to explain to him that it's not about just lifting something. My insides were mangled and parts ripped out. I'm exhausted, I can't think clearly, I can't drive as far as I have to and then sit in an office chair for 8-9 hours and drive home... Gahhhh. Good luck on your continued recovery.
I can say that at week 5 I felt so much better but not a second before then. I also had a bonus intestinal block that ended me up in the hospital for a week around week 4 so the week 5 boost was mostly happiness to be alive and being well hydrated from the hospital maybe. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Good lord, don't believe this cr*p. Go talk to an actual specialist if you are having discomfort. A lot of people like to complain, make up horror stories and all sorts of BS. The internet can be helpful, but take it as a grain of salt, especially when it's just anonymous posts
Hardly anyone talks about the body’s reaction to the removal of organs and the trauma to ligaments. Your body is built as a whole unit. While it’s sometimes necessary, removal of pieces of the whole have ripple effects. It’s an amputation. I’ve had major lower back pain since my laproscopic total hysterectomy, despite multiple docs telling me I’d be 100% in no time. I tried pelvic floor PT but the therapist told me my pelvic floor was strong and so she attempted to address tightness in my hips and her program just made me feel worse. I’ve been a massage therapist for 20 years and finally decided to trust my own knowledge and just started working on strength and mobility. I still have pain some days but it’s vastly improved as I strengthen my body. I don’t expect to ever feel exactly the same as before, but I do expect that I’ll get back to feeling good the majority of the time! Unfortunately every single person is different and it’s a giant game of trial and error to find what will work for you. But I wish things like this were talked about more
Yes exactly. An amputation. 🤯
I think you are reading into this and it is not from a reputable source and frankly I have not seen any actual scientific data that this is a thing.
😂😂😂 I have so many questions.
Interesting. I started ballet again after years and a hysterectomy 3 years ago and noticed right away that I’ve lost hip flexibility. It’s getting better but still I’m not back to what I was!