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Hello everyone out there, this isn't less blog but more a question. I'm a very active woman and I'm missing doing any kind of sports. I'm in the fifth week since my OP now and I feel getting that itch more and more. I need to do some workout. I can't do the usual stuff I do, since those are sports which would not be advisable to do so soon after that surgery, like cycling, sports climbing, inline skating or diving.
But I also need to do some less strenous sports to get back into shape again and getting my fitness back. I can't just lounge around.
I'm sure I'm not the only active woman being post op here, so maybe you have ideas or an advice what I could do while recuperating?
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If you take
the saddle off the bike, you could exercise and dilate at the same time :)
Angharad
Ouch!
Funny, but it hurt just thinking about it.
Slow walking, if the doc allows.
You!
Are perverse, woman! There was me thinking "Well, no cycling for a while, then" and you leave me with THAT image just before bedtime.
I'm with Steph on this Ang!
I'm with Steph on this Ang! Ouch and Gross!! Walking was my limit and 6 weeks was the minimum time the doctor set before the deed.... As encouragement my fitness returned after a few months and although for some years orgasms were good but gentle eventually I developed, to my great surprise, a full blown G-spot
Rhona McCloud
Damn the oversized carbon tube!
Please make me forget that image of nuns cycling, Angh! Maybe I should ask my local bike shop for smaller silicone ones...
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>> There is not one single truth out there. <<
Brightest of Blessings,
Think water.....
Swim.
Love,
Olivea
I have just one thing to say
Do not, under any circumstances neglect dilation, do not !
It was painful and awful and felt anything but arousing, so I finally gave up on it except for about once a week or month. Now I have a vagina that you'd be lucky to get a Tootsie Roll into, and about 3 1/2 inches deep.
It has been more than 7 years now and about 2 years ago, I was doing some dilating; trying to scratch an itch, and um all of a sudden the heavens sang and my body felt like electrified jello and I think it lasted for minutes, but don't know because all the circuits were blown. To add to it, that night as I slept, I repeatedly wakened because I was giggling.
So, do keep dilating. In time even if you have no sensation now, those nerves will repair themselves. If you keep dilating and have a useable vagina, then you too can be a Cougar and attack unwary males. :)
As far as exercise, you can walk, and you should. What did your Doctor tell you? Yes, biking will probably be contraindicated. I did it when I was 60, and the biggest issue was feeling worn out really soon.
Where did you do this? I did it in Thailand and the Doc was less than helpful post op. People will tell you that this is major surgery but I don't think it was. I think the biggest issue was recuperation from the damnable anesthesia.
Even if you can not consult with your surgical doc, perhaps you can get some counsel from a doc you can see?
Much peace. Call any time. :)
Gwendolyn
biking postop
I know a woman who walked out of her surgery to her bike once released from hospital. She still healed normally and had no issues other than tenderness. She didn't enter any races or go on 50km hikes... that took another 2 weeks.
Another friend hobbled around the house for 6 months suffering repeated infections... She didn't do any exercising or stretching beyond dialation.
Your recovery rate is a personal thing. Consult with your doctor where you are in your healing and ask him what you can do... its the only safe way.
Dayna.
You should be able to go
You should be able to go swimming. It's a nice clean sport, that you can take it easy or hard, just as you think you're able to. Just don't do it in the Thames.
if you are normally a bike rider
how about a recumbent bike? you are more laying down than putting that pressure on a very tender spot (i think, never ridden one, just seen them).
Teresa L.
Teresa L.
'Bents
...as they are called. I can't ride them. The best part of sixty years of riding what the bent riders call "upwrongs" leaves me too full of reflexes. What I would love, and CAN ride, is a 'bent trike. That would work post-op.
Until everything is fully
Until everything is fully healed, do _not_ go swimming, at least not in public pools.
It's not that the water is particularly filthy, it's more than there are a lot of people around it, the water does pick up bacteria, and the locker rooms are havens of fungus of various types. (ringworm, athlete's foot, etc)
If you know someone with a private pool, and they regularly use algaecide or otherwise sterilize the water, then you could use that.
Sea water is probably fine (the salt keeps down the infection risk). (or if you know someone with a sea salt pool, or one using copper/silver electrodes)
Isometrics, some pilates, some yoga. (what doesn't involve that area, at least). Slow stretches - VERY slow stretches, will give a very intense workout without running the risk of tearing anything.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.