I had an endometrial resection last Monday to treat horrendously heavy periods. My recovery has been a breeze, hardly any cramping and only a tiny bit of spotting for the first couple of days.
For the past couple of days I've had some slightly stronger cramps, I presumed it was still part of the recovering but it turned out to be my usual pre-period cramps. My period itself arrived in a flood earlier today, thankfully I was at home as it was bad enough that I had to hop into the bath to clean myself up 
The bleeding has settled down now and it is lighter than my periods were before (plus the pain is substantially less which is great!) but it's still not the dramatic reduction I was hoping for. I was told that the benefits should be pretty immediate but I'm desperately clinging to the hope that this is just a blip because it's so soon after the surgery.
I know if it hasn't worked well enough they can just do it again and in all likelihood that will sort things but I had to fight for years just to get this far and I'm so bloody gutted that this still might not be the end of it all.
I know there's plenty of MNers that have had ablations or resections, what were your first periods like? Has anyone had something similar and had them settle down or stop altogether after the first one?