lakilika
this is what happens when you bleed internally
I recently had emergency surgery on a ruptured ovarian cyst. These are my glorious before-and-after shots!
On the left is me post-op (actually, two days post-op). One of the primary symptoms I noticed the night before the surgery was that my stomach had started to swell, to the point where I couldn't even clench my abdominal muscles (partially due to the excrutiating pain, but also because I was, you know, BLEEDING INTERNALLY). It boggled my mind at the time; I chalked it up to obscene water-retention.
Anyway, the swelling was initially caused by the, you know, three pints of blood that had leaked out of my ovary and into my abdominal cavity. After THAT little issue was corrected, there was a lot of residual swelling due to the laparoscopy (did you know they insert a tube into your belly button and proceed to blow you up like a balloon? I saw diagrams. It looked freaky!). It took a whole week to go down, and was responsible for most of the tenderness post-surgery. That and the incisions. Man, cuts to the navel hurt!
this is what happens when you bleed internally
I recently had emergency surgery on a ruptured ovarian cyst. These are my glorious before-and-after shots!
On the left is me post-op (actually, two days post-op). One of the primary symptoms I noticed the night before the surgery was that my stomach had started to swell, to the point where I couldn't even clench my abdominal muscles (partially due to the excrutiating pain, but also because I was, you know, BLEEDING INTERNALLY). It boggled my mind at the time; I chalked it up to obscene water-retention.
Anyway, the swelling was initially caused by the, you know, three pints of blood that had leaked out of my ovary and into my abdominal cavity. After THAT little issue was corrected, there was a lot of residual swelling due to the laparoscopy (did you know they insert a tube into your belly button and proceed to blow you up like a balloon? I saw diagrams. It looked freaky!). It took a whole week to go down, and was responsible for most of the tenderness post-surgery. That and the incisions. Man, cuts to the navel hurt!