My mum would put her drops on a chocolate button to help with the taste!It is - paracetamol will be added to the mix! Mr C got me some CBD oil so popped a few drops of that under my tongue (it tastes so gross) so hopefully that will help too. I feel like such a moaning minnie today haha but it is just so painful! The cyst is on the side of my ovary next to the fallopian tube so when I have cramps it pushes into both hence the agony - just glad it's the weekend so I can justify spending the day in my pjs on the sofa!!
. Hope you feel more comfortable and well soon xxI love them!! Thank you!
Oh JCC what a rollercoaster. Sorry for your loss. Physically I hope you’re feeling a bit better today and the drugs are making you feel more comfortable. Emotionally it’s normal to be all over the place - emergency surgery is a shock to the system in itself without the loss of a baby also. The hospital or your GP should be able to refer you for counselling if it is something in the upcoming days/weeks/months you feel would be beneficial. Imagine Mr C felt very helpless in amongst the understandable anger and shock. Be gentle with yourself over the next few days/weeks.So a little update on my pain situation as so many of you were so lovely to me yesterdayi passed out in the kitchen this morning, cracked my head on the counter (I look like quasimodo right now
) Mr C rang 999, i was taken in an ambulance and went straight in to surgery - woke up about half an hour ago and am tattling to take my mind off things but it turns out what I was told the other week was a cyst was actually an ectopic pregnancy?! I could have died ffs. I have such conflicted views right now as the NHS have been incredible today but surely they should have spotted it when I had my scan? Emotions are also all over the place as I am definitely not ready to have a baby at the mo but I had one growing in me (albeit in the wrong place) and now I'm really upset for the child who could have been. God I'm a mess today, sorry for using you guys to vent! The only good takeaway from this situation is my (currently covered up but I had a peek) scar from the surgery will make me feel like a pirate!
I have had to contact PALS about something similarly serious and I felt like a monster because the NHS are amazing and it’s a pandemic and 1% payrises and frontline heroes and all of that that stuff that I fully support and agree with. A doctor friend completely reassured me it was the right thing to do to put procedures in place to stop it happening again though. I know it’s not on you to do that and if it’s too difficult for you then absolutely don’t. I did feel better when it was framed like that though. I have no idea if it helped them with training or whatever but they were very helpful.
Sending you so so much love @MancBee I really hope you feel better soon xxThis post is going to read like a Jack self obsessed diatribe, but I think I have earned it.Shall I call it "Biopsies" in honour of Jack's "Potatoes"?
Thanks for all the lovely messages. I've been sent home (well at my partner's parents, they live darn sarf) They are lovely, but I am looking forward to going home later today. There's nothing like your own surroundings when you're feeling sorry for yourself.
All went ok, decided I wouldn't have general anaesthetic and had a nerve blocker.
It was embarrassing, painful and traumatic. I have had loads of operations in the past, but always chosen to have a general....I will in future too. They needed to take 28 biopsy samples in all as I have chosen to allow them to use some for research purposes. If I can help them improve the situation for the future, it's the least I can do.
The procedure normally last 20 minutes, but it took nearly 2 hours as it was carried out by a doctor undergoing training (I agreed to this, of course). At the end of it all I passed out, before they had even started to remove the "equipment". I woke up with a crash team and about 20 people around my bed. No heart attack, just blood pressure plummeting, and I felt such a fool.
I'm still in a bit of pain and I'm bleeding like a stuck pig, but it is apparently what to expect for 2-3 weeks! The block wore off after 24 hours and pain are only effective to some degree, but it is all relative.
The NHS and it's staff are amazing. Glad it's over, and apprehensive about the results and future treatment, but I truly couldn't have had better care.
Thanks again to everyone for their lovely messages. You are all a bunch of mithering ninnies.
I have not ventured to this thread before, Jack's takes up so much time! It looks like this one doesn't move too fast though.
I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks. They gave me a D&C which didn’t remove everything so I had to have another one two weeks later because I carried on bleeding and returned to my GP to ask why. No one explained anything to me and I wish I’d known about PALS then. Two general anaesthetics in two weeks as well as the grief was extremely hard.
have plenty of rest and give yourself time to process your loss. It must be a lot to take in.exactly, I am not surprised they sometimes make mistakes given by how overworked and underpaid a lot of them arePALS wouldn't exist if there wasn't a need for it. The NHS is incredible but humans make errors and systems aren't always perfect. These things can only change if they know how things have gone wrong. That is not to say that anyone has a responsibility to report - quite the opposite, and should only be done if or once you are in the right place as going over everything can be intense and draining. Just wanted to reassure those that feel that they shouldn't - saying "this experience was bad for me because ... " doesn't mean you don't value the NHS or don't appreciate the care you get
