Leaky bladder after surgery and side effects from pill? Please help!!

[tigerlily27]

Hello ladies,

I have a few questions. Hopefully someone can help, any advice or tips would be great! I had my first surgery approx two months ago which found minimal endo. But since then I think about six weeks. I have had a leaky bladder, I have never had that before. I'm 25, never had kids. I mean it's not like I'm having to wear incontinence pants. But I have started needing to wear pantie liners but it's not been enough even with two (goes through my leggings- sorry tmi), so I will try proper pads now. I just wondered is this normal? I did have two UTIs in the five months, and I keep feeling I have another one but Then it goes. But I keep getting a lot of bladder pain. Also they did use a catheter overnight after my surgery. I dint know how much urine you lose with a normal leaky bladder.

Another thing I wanted to ask is to do with hormones. After the surgery, my pill was changed due to major retrograde bleeding and to help with endo. But I'm having what i think are side effects. I keep getting headaches that are in my whole head and my whole FACE too (jaw, eyes, nose,cheeks), they are very bad and can last for about 36-48 hours. Painkillers dont help. I also am having a lot of nausea, with the headaches and at other times too. It is becoming a bit much on top of my endo pain. I can't really concentrate or hide it, people are noticing, I'm not myself. Has anyone else had any of this? Is it normal? Will it pass? Any tips?

Thank you all again! I really appreciate ANY advice or personal experiences! Lots of love 💛 X X X

[ChloeV]

Hello. Not sure about the leaky bladder, Hopefully someone else will help you with that.

However, your headaches sound sadly familiar. I was diagnosed with migraines and they were also affecting my whole head and often made me sick too. I had migraine meds (sumatriptans) prescribed and this helped. I think it was another way for my body to express the pain of endo. There was also a hormonal cause but I was not on the pill.

I would recommend going back to your doctor and see if they diagnose migraines? Then you can decide what to do with your meds. Good luck with everything.

[tigerlily27 in reply to ChloeV]

Hi thank you so so much for your reply! It's really helpful. I have booked to go back to my gp on Tuesday and I will ask about it all. I will mention what you have said. Interesting that you had very similar but yet it wasn't the pill. I think you are right about the pain being expressed in a different way by our bodies. Hopefully can get some more help its so hard to be in constant pain. And I just don't want anything else wrong with me!! Were you r migraines in your face too? Thank you again!

[Malahide36]

Hi,

I had lots of bladder symptoms after my lap in May. . I wasn't leaking, but did feel I needed to go all the time and then just passing dribbles. I had lots of bladder pain . It was all new symptoms for me.

My urine was clear with no signs of infection.

Though I still managed to get antibiotics which really helped. . Maybe there was some infection that didn't show up in standard tests.

Anyway overall, the bladder and urine symptoms eventually settled down.

But like you, I was very worried and thought my bladder got damaged at surgery. .

I don't have the answers really except to say, it all settled down in time for me. .

I drank lots of fluids as well to flush it e'll out amd got a powder called cystopurin from the pharmacy.

I hope your symptoms settle down too in time.

Best of luck.🙂🙂🙂

[tigerlily27 in reply to Malahide36]

Thank you so much for your reply!!! Very helpful! Glad not to be alone. Can I ask how long it took approx for your symptoms to settle? I am just starting to be more concerned now as its been two months but I know that it does take a long time for things to settle! It's hard to be patient! 😂

Thank you again!! 💛 X X X X

[Malahide36 in reply to tigerlily27]

Hi .

No problem. .My bladder symptoms started to get really bad six weeks after surgery. . They flared up and down for another two months. . I suppose it was four months before I saw definite improvement. .

I was really worried. . I thought my pelvic floor was damaged and bladder etc. . I saw a pelvic physio as well on the nhs but really she tested my pelvic floor and it was very strong. .

It might be worth asking to see a pelvic physio as well I suppose.

It took me six months to recover from surgery in general and for my belly to stop bloating like a pregnant woman. .

I found this forum so helpful as I got lots of advice and encouragement

[tigerlily27 in reply to Malahide36]

Thank you so much that really helps and explains a lot. I think I just expected to be back to normal completely after two weeks, 😂, but it is true it must take a while for it all to settle. I am going to my doctor Tuesday so will check for uti etc. but I will have to be patient! You are right about this forum, I can't believe how much it helps! 💛 X X X X X