Hi all to preface this I am not trying to fear monger just sharing my experience and wondering if anyone can relate!
I started to have endo symptoms pretty badly for about 6 + months, and a big issue of mine was always inflammation. I’ve done pretty much everything “right” supplements, eat healthy, research, workout, walk, keep my stress down, etc etc etc but the inflammation was bad especially the week + leading up to my period along with a bunch of the typical endo symptoms.
I got recommended to a specialist and she was pretty sure I had endo along with PCOS at the time and I got scheduled for surgery. I was diagnosed with stage 1 and adenomyosis and surgery went pretty well! Recovery was also going pretty good, I was up and taking walks and felt pretty good until 10 days post op.
10 days post op I started to regress in pain and felt very inflamed in my abdomen. I ended up calling on day 11 and the doctor said it’s probably inflammation from my surgery and to take Advil and ice my abdomen to help with the inflammation.
The pain then was a bit better then got really bad on day 13, like the worse pain I ever felt and pain killers were not even touching it. I also threw up three times and my bowl movements were not regular at all. I ended up going in and had to have emergency surgery for my appendix to be removed.
They went through the middle of abdomen because that was the safest way because it was so inflamed.(usually it’s a lap procedure). Absolutely insane couple of weeks but if you feel pain after surgery regress I highly recommend going in just in case. They are not sure if it was related to my first surgery but I figured I’d share for awareness! I am now 9 days post opp from that and hopefully on the mend.