If you#re squeamish ... you may wish to avoid this thread.
Well, I had my posterior perineal repair done on Monday. I thought she was just going to sew up the lips a bit for neatness. I was rather gappy you see after the most recent birth rent asunder the back muscle wall of my vag. I agreed to have the op in the belief it might prevent chafing when I'm dry and menopausal.
I woke up from the GA in really bad pain to find a whole new fanjo. Many sutures inside pinning the back together.
Now it gets gory. Yesterday I was unable to poo. The poo came all the way down but wouldn't come out because there was so much swelling closing off the hole. I was in unbearable pain. I called the Gynae dept in tears. They said come into A&E and 'we'll send someone from the dept down to see you'. I got a taxi to A&E sobbing and hobbled in. An ordinary male nurse checked me and said, after poking around painfully 'it's fine, go away, have more pain killers and put in a glycerine suppository'.
I said the hole is actually closed so this won't work. I need to see someone from gynae. He tried but they wouldn't come to me. I went away in another taxi, sobbing again with pain and humiliation, with the prescription for pain killers (which cause constipation btw). It got more and more painful all day.
The pain was excrutiating and there was no way I could poo despite it all being there ready. I could think of nothing else all day. I cried a lot. I held a mirror to my fanjo to see massive, hard, hot, red swelling across my inside buttock and green pus oozing from the stitches. Obviously an infection which the idiot at A&E failed to spot. That's why the pain was so bad and the swelling was preveting anything from coming out.
Finally I went to the GP (in another taxi). She confirmed I had an infection and gave me ABs and stronger pain killers.
I'm left feeling really angry and humiliated. After a five minute consultation they cut me up in ways I didn't know they would then set me adrift with no after care. I had to fight tooth and nail, whilst in torturous pain, to get them to provide me with the where withal to clean up their horrible errors (infection).
I try to be positive about our NHS but it has failed me so dramatically once too often now.
I'm looking for similar experiences or advice as to where to go from here.