Reply to Anyone coping with very heavy menstrual flow (TMI)?

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Anyone coping with very heavy menstrual flow (TMI)?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had the ablation done in December and I can't believe i waited as long as I did to have it.  FINALLY I am off hormonal b/c (which was completely unnecessary since my husband had a vasectomy several years ago).  Periods for the first few months were non-existent, now they're just really really light.[/quote]

How long was your recovery? I work full-time and I'm trying to gauge how long I would need to be out of the office.[/quote]

I could have gone in to work the next day, but chose to go ahead and take the day off, since I'd already put in for the leave.  I have a boring desk job, so it's not as though I would have had to be on my feet all day or anything.  I had the procedure done around 3pm, I think it may have lasted 20 minutes or so.  They put me under and after I came to when they were done, I walked into the recovery room across the hall, drank some juice, ate a granola bar, and then DH drove me home.

My recovery was only hampered by the fact that I had a bad reaction to the painkillers they prescribed me.  Instead of asking for a drug I knew I tolerated well (percoset), I went with the doctor's recommendation of another drug I had never had before that was not a good one for me (vicodin).  I was violently ill and therefore went through the most painful part of the recovery with no pain meds (since I couldn't keep anything down).  After I could finally stomach crackers and ginger ale, I took a couple of advil and was fine the next day.  If I had simply stuck with OTC meds or asked for the stuff I knew worked for me, it would have been an absolute breeze.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics