After two nights of next to no sleep exhaustion is sort of gaining ground over my weird post op medication anxiety and I managed to down a dihydrocodeine an hour ago (rather than 4 am yesterday and not at all the day earlier).
Just praying I don't have an anxiety attack over some stupid little thing and it actually dampens the pain well enough manage to get a decent sleep tonight.
Fingers crossed as I am so knackered and fed up.
Sending love your way! May sound odd and completely inappropriate, but I've keep reading about this "sleep" cream from lush, can't remember the exact name but people claim it's amazing for insomnia! Hoping you get some sleep! Xx
Katiefrog11 is right, its called sleepy and it's honestly amazing, strongly recommend you get some, until then I hope you get some sleep soon my lovely x
Hi Starry
I am with you all the way on this. I was abandoned post my operation in an NHS room on my own, no painkillers antibiotics, fluids or care for 4 hours while they talked about beds and where to put me (mixed ward and they needed the rooms for men) until my husband arrived and demanded to know why I was left alone not knowing what was going on. I hadn't even been told the extent of my operation or diagnosis until the next day. He immediately transferred me to an amenity bed as he knew he would be dropping our children at grandparents a days drive away and unable to look in on me. Amazing care but then no medical follow up doctor care as we had unwittingly opted out of NHS post operative care.
Hospital painkillers and bowel excision module removal plus complete hysterectomy left me unable to go to he loo for 8 days. No helps from hospital or GP I had to self empty over a period of 9 hours on the bathroom floor (i won't spell it out here but it was traumatic). I should probably have been in hospital.
As a result I can't take painkillers unless I am forced to. I lay awake most of the night in dreadful pain, medical menopause sweats and insomnia and more recently screaming with rage in my head at my former GP and current one her boss. Thankfully I am too exhausted in the morning to carry out my nights rampages against my surgery.
I clearly need some councilling but struggling to get a specialist referral and some menopause help is priority at he moment.
I wish you luck and can only say you are not alone. Apologies for typos, i can't think these days.
Huge huge hugs Mcfw. Xxxx
What a terrifying traumatic experience to go through! Thanks for sharing making me feel I may not be completely crazy and perhaps there is a reason.
I totally empathize. I too had a 7 day no BM crisis thanks to the meds after my bowel shave excision. It was the only useful thing that happened during the NHS hospital stay and it was awful and agonising and terrifying enough even then. I can't believe you coped at home you poor thing xxxxx
Good luck with the menopause specialist referral and don't neglect your emotional health. I start counseling in September. When I went on the wait list in May I thought I'd be fine and not need it by then as op would be over. How wrong I was!
I wish you weren't having such a hard time. Not being able to sleep is terrible! I hope everything ended up being okay x
Thanks everyone, you are all helping keep me sane as I get through this.xxxx
The codeine made me groggy enough to sleep through the pain but I paid for it with BM issues massively this morning despite my lactulose dose. Gonna have to work out some sort of 2 nights off one on strategy or something for a bit. Nightmare.
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