Hi sorry if this is tmi but I wanted to share my story as I feel so alone. 6 days after a forcep birth with episiotomy my stitches had come apart and were infected. After a week of antibiotics the hospital told me it would heal naturally and they would not restitch. For the best part of 10-12 weeks I couldn't sit down and was making weekly visits to the doctors to be told every time that it would just take time. Each week I would get more and more upset as I felt why me. After about 12 weeks I got referred to the gyno who said it was healing well for what I had done and it will be a few more weeks. I am not week 19 and I am still not healed. I am better than I was as I can now sit and do most althongs but i still have some granulation tissue which stings when I per and every time I have a bowel movement I bleed slightly from my scar which the doc has said is where the tissue is thin and tight so I burst tiny blood vessels when straining (which I try not to do!) the doc is writing to the gyno again but I am still being told it will take time....surely over 4 months is long enough?? It gets me down and I feel a failure as wife as I am still no where near having sex again. I feel like I will never feel or be myself again and afraid my husband (who is very understanding) won't wait forever.
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