Recovery Quesion

Bay Area Guy · July 2016

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 · July 2016

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 · July 2016

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 · July 2016

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 · July 2016

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 · July 2016

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).

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