Recovery Quesion

Bay Area Guy

I'm a week out now from my surgery and things seem to be going fine.  I do have a couple of questions, however, related to two things that I have observed.  Just want to see if it's normal or if I should be pulling out the hair I no longer have.

1.  Over the course of the week, on three separate occasions, I had a tiny, tiny speck of blood in my urine.  Other than that, my urine has beena nice straw color since I make sure I drink enough.  It's bright red.  When I was discharged, the nurse said some blood might pass.  At first she said that I should only worry if my urine was the color of rose wine, but she modified that and said it needed to be a deeper color to worry, so I asked more on the level of a cabernet, and she said yes.  So should a small fleck three times in a week be of concern?

2.  Every once in a while, my stomach doesn't feel quite right.  It's not quite to the level of nausea, but just a little bit of discomfort.  Given my past abdominal problems, I get a little sensitive when things a little amiss there.  Bowel movements have been regular, both in timing and consistency.  I'm guessing it's just a case of my body trying to readjust to the new situation.

Ay reason for me to worry on either of these?

hardo718

My opinion, no worries

Although I didn't have any blood in my urine, I have heard that it's not all that unusual.  Depending on where the growth was located, etc.  If the worry is relentless I would suggest putting a call in to your doctor, just to ease your mind.  As far as your stomach issues, personally I was pretty nauseated for a while after surgery, but then I tend to be predisposed to feeling nauseated fairly regularly.  I had a really difficult time eating more than a couple of bites at a time for the first couple of weeks.  I did lose some weight because of that, and unfortunately I've gained it back.  It's important to remember that your surgery was very invasive, even with a robotic partial.  They rearrange everything in there to get the beast out, not unusual for those organs to then rebel a bit while they try to get back to where they like it best.  Recovery is fun, isn't it?

God bless,

Donna~

Bay Area Guy

hardo718 said:

My opinion, no worries

Although I didn't have any blood in my urine, I have heard that it's not all that unusual.  Depending on where the growth was located, etc.  If the worry is relentless I would suggest putting a call in to your doctor, just to ease your mind.  As far as your stomach issues, personally I was pretty nauseated for a while after surgery, but then I tend to be predisposed to feeling nauseated fairly regularly.  I had a really difficult time eating more than a couple of bites at a time for the first couple of weeks.  I did lose some weight because of that, and unfortunately I've gained it back.  It's important to remember that your surgery was very invasive, even with a robotic partial.  They rearrange everything in there to get the beast out, not unusual for those organs to then rebel a bit while they try to get back to where they like it best.  Recovery is fun, isn't it?

God bless,

Donna~

Thanks Donna

The blood int he urine isn't bothering me at all.  I just wanted to be sure.  As for the stomach, like I said, I've had more issues in my guy in my time on this planet than I care to remember, so I do get a bit of a case of hypochondia when something out of the ordinary is going on.  Thanks for the answer!

medic1971

I had blood too

I too had a little blood for a couple of days post-op, but it was red tinged colored and like yours I had very tiny clots, but that all went away about day 3 or 4.

 

I had very little appetite after surgery and like Donna I too lost weight.  I lost a total of 12 pounds over about a 3 week period post-op.  I just did have much of an appetite, plus there is a lot of healing going on too and that burns a ton of calories...  I think that that is normal after any major surgery.  

It took about 4 months before my abdominal muscles weren't sore.  It was like to soreness you would feel the next day after doing a lot of crunches/sit-ups.  It was about 4 months before I could start doing crunches, push-ups , or pull-ups again.  You just don't realize how much you use those core muscles until they are sore

Jason

foxhd

Your body has just been big time insulted. Tell yourself out loud what you just went through. Pretty impressive. Give it more time.

Bay Area Guy

Thanks

Medic and fox, thanks for the replies.  I just needed to be sure.  Truth be told, i'm damn proud of myself for not going nuts from the time I was originally diagnosed (12/2013) to the surgery (6/22/2016).