Yes, it is the insides. They will hurt even after the incision is healed. Sneezes are the worst.One night about five weeks after the operation I was in bed on my stomach and suddenly everything inside of me shifted in three movements: kachunk, kachunk, kachunk. That really hurt! I felt like I was going to throw up. After awhile the pain subsided, but it was inside of me. Very weird. Now, I know they did a lot of poking around to see if the cancer had spread and my nurse friend said they are not gentle when they are in there. She thought everything was shifting into place and also filling some of the space left by the absent uterus. Your incision, by the way, looks great. (You should see mine - a big long one from my navel to the nether regions held together by staples. It looked like a big zipper. If I was ever given to wearing a beach thong [not because I'm very fat] the look has been ruined entirely ;0> )- Diana
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TITLE: The Nothing Day
AUTHOR: Elizabeth M.
DATE: 8/18/2004 06:32:17 PM

Hi ElizabethThat is terrific news that you are cleared to drive after two weeks! Reading other sites where women are still at home, exhausted after 6 weeks, is a little scary. I'm still on the fence about Lupron/laparoscopic surgery or a regular myomectomy. You mentioned you had a friend who did the Lupron route. Do you know how the side effects were for her? I would expect hot flashes. However, my job is not one that I would want to do sleep deprived or in a cranky horrible mood. The pharmaceutical company would indicate that only 10% of women experience side effects other than hot flashes. If this is the case, it appears to me that those 10% represent 90% of the women that write into web sites!That is terrific that you are planning on training for a marathon. I have never done a marathon but my fibroid and I have done a couple of half marathons. Based on its size and location, my doctor expects me be incontinent running, but that isn't the case. The past year I have been more into cycling. I plan to do my first century (100 miles) next weekend. My tumor will be an obvious bulge in those tight fitting bike shorts but I imagine everyone will just think I am getting a little belly as I head towards 40. Whatever surgery I decide, it will be in January. I'm in the northeast so I can recover watching the snow, be fully recovered in time for cycling season. I know what you mean by, "if only I had dealt with it sooner". But for me, I was at an important point in my career where if I had no symptoms and could wait, I would keep pushing in my career. Now I am over the career hump but the tumor is bigger. The price for career success may just well be an abdominal myomectomy. These are tough decisions and as you noted in one of your earlier messages, very personal for every woman. Thanks for your previous reply!east coast Elizabeth