Hi everyone,
Well, at 2am this morning I got a bit of a scare. I woke up feeling slightly damp in lower regions and thought I’d been childish and had a major whoops moment. I headed into the bathroom still half asleep and kicked off my pj trousers. I got quite a shock when I saw a large dark red blood clot lying on my pjs and realised that I’d been bleeding. After cleaning myself up I phoned NHS24, almost certain that I was going to be heading back into hospital. The nurse asked all sorts of questions and then came to the decision that I didn’t need to go to hospital as it was probably old bleeding from the surgery. I was told to put a pad on and keep an eye on it, any further symptoms or fresh bleeding I was to phone them back right away. I was so relieved that I didn’t have to go to hospital.
I’d had minimal bleeding after surgery and nothing at all after the catheter removal so waking up to that 3 weeks after surgery really gave me a fright. I’d been feeling pretty good and hadn’t experienced any of the pain etc some of the ladies on here had experienced and because of that I may have been doing a wee bit more than I should. Talk about wake up call. I’m now taking things a fair bit easier. Just thought I’d post what happened on here as a wee warning to anyone in the same situation. Please be careful and don’t end up scaring the living daylights out of yourself like me.
Take Care
Angie
Hi Angie,
I had a similar thing happen at 2 weeks post surgery. I hadn’t had any bleeding at all post op so was surprised when I started bleeding W weeks in. It lasted 2 weeks. I rang the hospital and my consultant rang me and explained that it could be that a stitch may have dissolved too quickly. I may have overdone it. Of course being on the blood thinning injection wouldn’t have helped. It all settled and I made an uneventful recovery.
I hope your recovery progresses gently.
Best wishes
Honey 
Hi , Angie you did the right thing contacting the hospital about it. Yes you can get some bleeding a few weeks after the op which can indeed be caused by a number of things and yes if it happens always best to report it. Its definitely important to to not over do things,
I know from my own experiences that I felt fantastic after my op although I got exhausted quickly but I did forget myself a number of times and ended up throwing a stitch, now that was a strange feeling. I was doing really well recovering from the op but i was mega frustrated that underlying problems started up and has caused all kinds of extra complications for my recovery and also looking for signs of recurrence. This is why my oncology team haven’t discharged me from formal reviews yet. In July it will be 4 years since my op blimey that’s coming around fast, yet I never expected everything that has and is happening. Best advice always is to try not over doing things, rest when needing too and don't beat yourself up if your struggling neither, we are all different and the way our bodies behave is different too.
Sending you a gentle bear hug 
and i hope you will not have any more scares fingers crossed 
_GBear Xxxx
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