The Review I Wish I Had Seen Before....

By Day 5, a lot of the swelling was subsiding in the upper region. However, I noticed that all of it was accumulating in the middle section. Must be that when I stood up, all of the fluid pools in one spot concentrated spot and boy is that painful! After standing for 5-10 minutes, I'm usually keeled over in distress at the end. I find that as long as I lay down, I feel great. Except, this is extremely impractical, especially almost a week in. Another huge issue I was not anticipating was the irritation and burning. For the days 5-present I have had a terrible internal burning sensation and chafing like feeling. It is miserable ladies. I have resorted to diaper creams to keep the area feeling dry. I was hoping to be able to resume working from home after the first work and then go back to the office at 14 days. Realistically, sitting up in a chair is torture right now. It puts a lot of strain on the incisions and causes more irritation. I'm cautiously optimistic that in the next 6 days things miraculously improve so that I am able to comfortably sit on my donut for 8 hours a day.

When prepping for my procedure, I spent a lot of time searching for reviews from women who had gone through the procedure and I found very few. Most of what I came across were male doctors saying how easy and painless the recovery would be. Well ladies, they lied. And I don't necessarily think it's intentional, they just can never experience pain in that area because they don't have vagina's, labia or perineum's.

I am 9 days into my recovery now and it has been a lot harder than I anticipated. Days 1-2 are rough as expected. I felt like I had been kicked in the crotch by a combat boot repeatedly.
Day 3, I woke up with so much pain I was on my bathroom floor fetal position having a full blow panic attack. I had stopped the Vicodin the night before, so I will attribute the pain to stopping the hard stuff too soon. It was constipating me, I was worried about my first BM and I had read so many doctors say that many women managed post-op pain with OTC meds. They were wrong. S o back on the round the clock Vicodin and 800 mg Motrin I went.