11 Weeks Post Hysterectomy – Karen’s Story

Hi my name is Karen. I am 39 years old and had an abdominal hysterectomy on 6th September due to large fibroids and very low iron. All seemed well when I woke up. I was discharged 48hrs after my op (Thursday) By the Sunday afternoon I was starting to feel very unwell and had pains in my leg and the whole of my tummy being black with bruises up to my belly button (if I could upload a photo I would). I went back to the hospital and was told I had an infection in my scar. I was given antibiotics and bloods taken and sent home. At 10 pm that evening I had a phone call from the doctor to inform me my bloods had dropped again from 12.5 to 8 and I would need to go back in to hospital the following morning for a blood transfusion. On my return to the hospital they decided to check my bloods again to see if it had gone up over night? They said I may of had an internal bleed. As my bloods had gone up they decided I didn’t need the transfusion but the antibiotic I was on were the wrong ones, so an alternative course of antibiotics was given. My concern was for the bruise on my tummy as my scar wasn’t hurting but the whole of my tummy was so sore, even to stroke. I was asking for a scan all of the time but it was dismissed. A week later I returned to the hospital for them to take another look at my tummy and scar again as I was still in a lot of pain. They decided to change my antibiotics as they said the infection wasn’t responding to the other antibiotics? All of thi...
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