Full TT and MR - Sydney, AU

Ok so I've had five kids in 10 years 4 csections. At my heaviest I was 114kg now 70kg Struggled first week big time hoping 2nd week better.swelling from lipo around my hips is soooooo bad and my butt n back are killing me. So bored this is my first time on real self love reading about others journey.

So I thought I'd add some more info I thought might be helpful. With my history of csections I have extra insight I think for those early days. With my first csections my whole incision burnt like CRAZY every time I moved OMG I was told then it was my nerve endings reacting to being cut I don't know if that's true but with all other csections (along same incision line) it didn't happen again. The burning/ stinging was bad but by week 3 was a lot less and by week 5!was gone. So when I felt the same burning on the new hip area of my tt incision I didn't freak out as much, as I know it's short term and I had some idea what it was. Although a nurse looking after me during tt said it can also be where a retractor might have been used and stretching the skin more in that area either way already on day 5-8 it's so much less now.
Also in hospital I was using my pain pump like a demon not due to my tummy which was very bearable but due to a very bad headache feeling sick and body aches I just couldn't raise my head off the pillow for the first three days. Then very wise and wonderful nurse asked me three simply questions ' do I drink much coffee? My answer no. Do I suffer migraines? My answer no. She then said Darling do you drink diet coke? Oh yes I do. How much? Like 1.25l a day. She goes 'Oh your suffering from caffeine and artificial sugar withdrawals I'll have you fixed in no time. 2 cups of bad coffee with 3 fake sugars in each later I felt like a completely different person. Next day up out of day next day home from hospital. OMG love that nurse!!!! Another tip I hired a hospital style remote control bed when I got home. I spent 1 night in a lounge chair not fun. So looked into it yep got one delivered they fully set it up the next day $50 bucks a week to hire GOLD!!!!!! My tummy feels good my butt is killing helped today abit by buying a foam ring cushion again something I had used during a past csections. Back hurts, but the worst part is the swelling on my hips I've got a Kim Kardashian sized booty painful stuff lol. Oh something else I did which I thought was cool was after my P.S was done drawing the lines on me for where he'd do his cuts etc i asked to borrow his pen I then write FEAR on the part that he was going to cut away. Lol I thought it was kinda cool you know cutting fear out of me and throwing it away.anyway I'll write more later happy to answer questions hope any of what I write might help someone love reading everyone's stuff while sitting around waiting to recover.

The $18000 was all up I have no health insurance. Was $10,000 PS and $8000 for Hospital