My OB pretty much gave me hell at our last visit. After the ultrasound proved there to be nothing out of the ordinary going on (in spite of the pain), she declared that I am doing too much too soon.
It's true. I suck at bedrest, as we learned in last month's episode, "Bedrest because otherwise you will go into painful early labor" (and then I basically did just that, although not as early as it could have been). I am not a good patient. I am horrible at it. I can't make myself lie around all day doing nothing, asking others to do for me. I feel like a lazy slug, and it eats away at my psyche.
This horrible pain has helped change my tune a bit. I have discovered that on days I do things, I bleed rather heavily and I hurt... a lot. On the days I shut my piehole and sit on the couch, popping my pain meds and guzzling water while jockeying the remote control, I hardly bleed at all, and the pain is minimal (big fat duh). So I've learned to be a couch potato.
But come six weeks, I'm doing stuff, daggumit. I'm bored out of my skull and TV blows. Augh. Plus, it leaves more time for me to start fights on Facebook, and that's no good for anyone.
I think I would suck at bedrest too. So sorry you are stuck twiddling your thumbs.
Posted by: Kristin | May 03, 2011 at 11:28 PM
First, congratulations! she's beautiful. i sucked at bed rest too but it makes a lot of difference... enjoy the early time with her
Posted by: Karen | May 04, 2011 at 07:34 AM
I thought I was the only one. I had to search for pages and pages on Google to find someone that mentioned this complication.
They had tied up a nerve inside the stitches. The med student who was practicing his closing did, anyway. Every time I moved it was a horrible lightening bolt of pain. I had a c-section with my first too, but I never, ever felt anything like that pain. I had trouble making it to the bathroom (and often didn't) because the when the pain hit, I somehow lost bladder control. Percocet did nothing, and I too was told "Just rest, you're overdoing it". Walking to the bathroom after lying in bed for hours was apparently too much.
Actually, the problem was the damaged nerve was one that was associated with my bladder. Yippee.
Anyway, one day the dissolving stitches finally dissolved, or something, and the pain was gone. Just like that.
I don't know if this is what you have, but if it is, know that it gets better.
Posted by: Carrie | May 06, 2011 at 10:59 PM
It must be impossible to be a couch potato with 2 young girls on your heels! I hope you are feeling up to getting around and no consequences of doing so!!
Posted by: Amy | May 15, 2011 at 01:52 PM
OMG, you're doing such a good job being a couch potato that you haven't posted in a million years!!!
Posted by: Abi | May 17, 2011 at 10:48 AM