u/ABabblingRhyme

Hey... so, any experience with this one?

This started a couple days ago. I'm on day seven past LAVH now and fully off everything other than Aleve or Tylenol to help with the occasional low-grade fevers at night (never reaching my doc's 100.4° threshold).

I'm getting solid sleep, not spending a disproportionately more significant amount of time in front of screens than before surgery, not having vision issues, eating fairly well, staying hydrated, no headaches, etc. But my right eyelid is really bugging me off/on with long stretches of twitching.

I'm not necessarily concerned, just annoyed by it. My (un)educated guess is that being at a 30° head-down Trendelenburg position can fiddle with a few things neurologically for a while and that may be at play here. I know my body just underwent major surgery, so technically any number of variables could be behind this.

It's not necessarily worth me calling my surgeon for (though I'll certainly mention it to him in my two-week post-op visit), but mentioning here to a) learn if anyone else experienced this and hacked a way to quiet it down and b) provide a reference point down the road for anyone else who, like me, may be searching the archives on here for this particular "huh, didn't have that on my bingo card" post-op puzzle.

CW: >!Childlessness!<

I'm (F44) still early in recovery (Day 6) from LAVH with endometriosis excision, so I know much in this zone is still just my body trying to cope with the Very Big Things that just happened to it. Bowels are still slowly waking up (even with softeners), bladder is touchy, sleep positions are trial and error, movement is careful and awkward, etc.

I'm fortunate to have a fair bit of time off from work for recovery, which is great for the grab-bag of autoimmune/endocrine fun times my body likes to amplify during periods of emotional/physical stress.

I also have no children, which while quite sad for me sometimes, has been a good thing for me right now. My husband is taking care of himself, me, and the cat, and I can lounge around and focus on doing whatever I can to prevent post-op inflammation/stress from kicking off big immune system rebellion.

This has meant a lot of binge watching, texting with friends, reading, moving around gently—and sleeping when my body says, "That's it, I'm done! Stop. Sleep."

So, I take a two-hour nap at 1PM or a three-hour one at 5PM. Of course, this throws off my timing for overnight sleep, which can mean 2-8AM.

I'll obviously need to retool my circadian rhythm before returning to work in early June, but I don't know if this current, super chill "sleep as much and whenever I feel like it" situation is a healthy/intuitive one or brewing trouble downstream.

Does anyone have any experience with these cofactors of a) having janky chronic illness/autoimmune issues and b) actually having the ultra-rare ability to unplug and pamper yourself for a few weeks, and c) not trusting your body to know what's best for it rest-wise?

EDIT: Punctuation correction