Congratulations Cupcake, good to hear everything went well! How are you feeling now? Did you stay in overnight? Did you know you had any endo prior to the lap? Good luck monday, hope you receive more positive feedback, let us know how things go. I was put on Panadeine Forte for 5 days and voltarin. I didn't feel much discomfort at all until I started reducing the amount of meds I was taking. In the first week I would get a sore throat (from the LMA/airway they used while I was anesthetised) and for me the pain meds helped with that also.

Hows the Clomid going? Did you start taking it before the lap? If you've started on it, did you get any side effects?

As for me, I'm healing up well, still waiting on the and won't be going back to work for another couple of weeks. Since my job is pretty strenuous and requires lifting, I was advised that I rest properly and not rush back to work. So it looks like more time of rest which is good but hard for me as I am not use to it, I don't like leaving my work mates to pick up the slack. But I guess at the end of the day its about looking after ourselves and not putting ourselves at risk.

Glad you're having a better day Caz, good luck with the car tomorrow.

Haven't heard from Noja for awhile, hope she's going ok.

Hope everyone is going well

Thanks girls.

I didn't stay o/night. I was admitted at 7 am - operated at 10.30 am and in recovery until about 2 pm before they gave me something to eat and then DH came to get me at about 4 pm. It was a full day though! Why are hospital beds so uncomfortable!?!

I am on day 3 of healing and it all appears fine. I didn't have to take any painkillers last night and had a good night's sleep. I am on standard paracetamol and have nuerofen as well - but don't really feel like I need anything else -I am quite ok. Just the shoulder tip/muscular pain from anesthetic that hurts more than anything, but that is going.

Getting around the house a bit more today and we are actually going away to the Gold Coast this w/end for our 1st year anniversary! (although not terribly romantic given my current state - but nice to get away).

I have started Clomid - not sure why FS told me to start before op - but yeah it went quite well. First day I felt like I was carrying a bunch of grapes around my insides but apart from that all was good. No mood swings or anything thankfully.

I didn't know for sure I had endo before op - doctor suspected it given I had spotting before for quite a few months now. So she was right.

So that's about it from me for the moment. Feeling positive and good about everything and loving having an excuse to eat chocolate every day.

hi lioness i'm good thanks, picked car up earlier and happy with it so thats good. Got phone call tonight to say a manager will be phoning in next 48 hrs to discuss why we were dissatisfied with the service we recieved as if they need to ask.

Your still not showed up, hmm!!! Me neither not due for another couple of days but my boobs have been really tender for 4 days now so thought it was coming early.

Was thinking how noja was.

Big hope everyone doing okay

All sounds good cupcake, and as for chocolate....well....that sounds great ! You're doing well without using much pain relief. Apparently I woke up in discomfort last night asking DH to get me a couple of neurofin. I don't remember any of it...I tend to do things in my sleep and not know anything about it

Glad you've got your car back caz. Hope you're healing well. Not much else happening here, just resting STILL!... hehehe.

Let us know how things are going...

Lioness know how you feel dh says i do things like that all the time and i'm none the wiser!!!

I'm just resting up too, dreading going to back to work next wed. Hopefully no one will ask anything.

Got my letter for my next fertility appointment this morning it's in september seems ages away, know it's not really, just hoping we don't need it but then the negative side of me knows we'll be going, think i'm needing some PMA

Glad ur doing okay

Hi girls, back on-line after a busy week back at work. How is everyone recovering? Hope you all had a good week. I'm so glad to see Friday!
I had no idea it would take sooo long to get back to normal. paid me a very long (8 days) and very heavy visit but at least the doc had warned me what to expect.
Cupcake you must have a very high pain threshold-good for you!! Really pleased for you that the reports are so positive, I hope everything goes well for you now. I LIKE the attitude about chocolate.
Lioness and Cazhd you noticed my absence, I feel quite touched, thank you, you are all so encouraging. I was just so busy at work and so tired by the time I got home in the evenings that I hadn't the energy to turn on the computer. In hind sight I think I should have left it another week, I spent a lot of time this week hopping up and down of chairs, hanging things on walls and generally running around the school like a mad woman. Probably not helped by a 70 minute drive every morning and afternoon!!
Comments at work and from people in general seem to be something we have to learn to deal with. The minute people think it's about time you should be 'producing' the pressure starts. It's awful. I really feel for you Cazhd. I had a parent in school STARE at my stomach in such an obvious rude way I felt quite uncomfortable. Apparently there was speculation about my time off-even though I had quite deliberately made it known I was having a small op and would be off for a few weeks.
I obviously missed out on a car adventure here Cazhd, hope it got sorted whatever it was that happened!

Going out out for a bite to eat with DH tonight and have a few wee glasses of wine cause after that it'll be way too close to O to be chancing alcohol...The countdown is about to begin again.My two best friends are pregnant, they managed both managed on the first go-where am I going wrong!!!

You know what, it's just good to be back in here today and to be able to unload. I had a good cry today on the way home form work, about the fact that had I not had the early m/s I would now be looking forward to going on maternity leave for the next school year. And, of course like each of us, I'm terrified of the prospect that there might never be baby-ouch, even saying that hurts. Gotta believe it will happen.

oh, also , a slightly odd question-how are your belly buttons? Mine is quite red but not sore at this stage. I'm afraid to poke about too much. Have removed the dressing now which the nurse had changed after a week. Is there anything I should or should not be doing???:

Yippee, now I've got a ticker too!!

...and another one. Do I have to put the text in every time i write a post?

Hi Noja

My belly button is ok! I took my dressing off today (3 days post-op) and really expected something yuck but it was all quite fine. Can't really notice it much and it is probably the most sensitive of the three spots, but not too bad.



Don't be too down about where you might have been maternity leave wise if things had turned out. I went through this as well - my was meant to have been born on Easter Sunday this year and that was a really tough day for me (and leading up to it) , with all the 'if this had turned out - then I'd be doing this right now".

Even now sometimes I think, if it all went ok I'd have a 7 week old etc. But it will drive you batty if you keep going through this. It's ok to think about now and then, but please look forward, not back - the best is yet to come!!

I have a background in engineering and science, so I'm a numbers girl, and statistically there are very very very few people that end up childless. I keep telling myself this - statistically, it will happen at some point - even if it takes ages - numerically, it will happen!

I don't know if this gives much hope - but the more you try, the better chances you have. And we all seem to have had to take a little detour from the 'standard' way we think things should happen - but they will happen. Of that I am certain.:thumpup:

One thing I try to think of sometimes, when I see all these pregnant women is that I just assume everything has gone well for them - but this may not have actually been the case! I mean, just because I see a pregnant woman doesn't mean it just happened when she wanted - she could have been trying for months, even years, and no one ever knew.

Just like when we all have our babies - people might think 'oh it was easy for them - they had a baby when they wanted it' but that is far from the truth.

I know I haven't been telling everyone how hard we have been trying and for how long (12 months) and when people ask I say "We'll see what happens". So when I do have my baby, maybe people will think it just happened when I wanted it to happen, which is so not true!!

Sorry for my ranting - but I am just trying to get some PMA out there. Don't get me wrong - I get down - very down sometimes - but I think this forum is really helpful and to read other people's posts provides hope.

We will all get there - through blood, sweat and many many tears - we will get there!!

Take it easy hun.
Cupcake Queen