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catheter, blood pressure, hygeine, bathing, showering

Hello fellow CyST☆RS!  I am so happy to have found this forum and this thread in particular.

I have three questions (my experience is detailed below):

1.  Have any of you had a severe adverse reaction to a bladder catheter?  Do you know the cause?

2.  Did any of you experience drastic dropping of blood pressure post surgery?  Mine got down to 60/40.  Do you know why this happens?

3.  How soon after surgery could you shower, and what instructions were you given to take care of the incision sites?

THANKS!!!


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Today is Monday, March 16, 2015.  I went in for two Laproscopic surgeries on Saturday morning, and got home yesterday (Sunday) late afternoon.  I currently live in Europe, and the language barrier made it diffucult for me to understand all of the answers to my questions, so I have posted them below, in hopes that any of you can shed some light on them for me.  ♡

I had a 34mm cyst removed from the side of my right ovary that had been growing there for seven years, plus two smaller cysts on the same side removed.  Endometriosis  was found and removed also.  At the same time as the gyno surgeon operated, a second breast surgeon Laproscopically removed a fibroedonima from my right breast.  I have three incision points on my abdomen and one on my breast.  

My surgery experience went like this:

I had a severe reaction to the bladder catheter, and had it removed immediately.  It burned and hurt for two hours after only being in for about 4 or 5 minutes.  I was very scared that the nurse did something wrong, tore something, or that I had an allergic reaction. I felt like I had to pee every 2 minutes, and when I did it burned like hell.  It felt worse then the worst Urinary Tract Infection I had every had.  I still am unclear as to why this happened.

*****QUESTION:  Has anyone had a similar experience?  Do any of you know why this happens?

The surgeries went well.  All of my reproductive organs remained in tact, and my breast implant was not damaged at all.  

After surgery, my blood pressure began dropping rapidly.  from what I recall hearing, it got as low as 60/40.  There were at least 10 nurses and doctors in the room by then, and I was terrified and going in and out of consciousness.  They gave me something, and my blood pressure gradually got back to a healthy state.  They monitored my blood pressure about every 20 minutes the rest of my stay, so I got very little sleep.

*****QUESTION: Has anyone had a similar experience?  Do any of you know why this happens?

I am doing okay today.  Very tired, achy, pain, bloated, nauseous.  I woke up many times from the pain last night.  But I am very very happy to have it over with.

♡♡♡
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Regarding the incision site. I was advised to take a bath the day after my operation but only because they used waterproof dressing (tegaderm) cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide only (3sweep motion on 1 direction only)
and I was advised to used gauze (to let air in) and wash the incision site after 3 weeks (btw I had laparatomy 15cm long).  
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Regarding the incision site. I was advised to take a bath the day after my operation but only because they used waterproof dressing (tegaderm) cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide only (3sweep motion on 1 direction only)
and I was advised to used gauze (to let air in) and wash the incision site after 3 weeks (btw I had laparatomy 15cm long).  
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Hi. I'm 1 month post op salpingo oophorectomy and omentectomy. I had no problems with catheter but from what my dr and nurses told me I had to drink water and pee as much as I could to flush away bacteria (if there's any) since they inserted catheter. Regarding your blood pressure, im not sure but it may be because of the anesthesia. I had fever, severe nausea and i vommit a lot after I woke up from recovery room and my blood pressure was little lower than the normal. They also checked me very often due to the fever. They advised me to walk as tolerated for faster recovery and to avoid deep vein thrombosis and pneumonia. Also drink plenty of water to flush out anesthesia.
I hope you recover well from
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