Discharge Guidelines – Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy
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- Laparoscopy is generally an outpatient procedure and can be discharged on the next day.
- Shoulder pain from the carbon dioxide gas used during surgery and abdominal discomfort are common. It may take up to 1 -2 days to feel normal again.
- Your throat may be sore for 1 or 2 days from endotracheal tube.
- Pain may be felt at the incision site and fluid may leak from the incisions for a day. These discomforts usually diminish markedly after 2 days.
- Plan to avoid any activities that will require concentration for at least 2 days.
- One to two weeks rest is advisable after the surgery
- After one week, you can resume normal activity like walking, cooking, driving, sitting in front of the computers for 4-6 hrs. etc.
- Intercourse, strenuous exercise, lifting of heavy weights, swimming etc, has to be avoided for a period of 2 weeks.
- You can continue your normal diet after the surgery.
- You can have daily bath in cold or warm water.
- Sitting in squatting position to be avoided for one month.
- Discharge or a little pain in the wound is common. In case of redness, increased pain or fever do inform us.
- It is common to have your menses a little early or late.
- You are advised to come for physical checkup after one month of your surgery.