Having Surgery while having your "Monthly"?

[54Shirley 105]

If it were me,,, hmmmm, I might ask them for the next week for surgery.

Not that they have not seen this before.

It's just all the swelling that you have.

It might get painful.

On the flip side someone is going to say well they give you pain killers.

So whats the problem.

I'm thinking, you don't want to hurt yourself.

But that's up to you, and your Doc..

[andrea0121 28]

Just a word to the wise, you can not 'sneak' a tampon. I read that the carbon fibers in tampons interfere with some surgical equipment or gas, I am not sure. The nurse, pre-op will give you a pad and some sort of mesh underwear. Also, I am not sure what a catheter has to do with your period? The place that gets a catheter is not the same place that bleeds during a period. So, the catheter would not have been used 'in stead' of a tampon or pad. Good luck and please check with the nurse, they have seen it all.

When you have to wear a pad, its embarrassing because there is blood.....I'm well aware of where a catherer goes and where my flow comes from...........

[erink58 8]

When you have to wear a pad, its embarrassing because there is blood.....I'm well aware of where a catherer goes and where my flow comes from...........

The first one I was mortified and actually crying pre-op because I had to have a catheter put in. The LapBand surgery I didn't need a catheter so they just give a monstrosity of a pad and these funky underwear to put on.

Sorry, I was confused by your post. You stated that the second surgery you had no catheter and a pad. It looked like you were saying the first surgery only required a catheter...thus my confusion....Sorry.