Sounds about right. My surgeon said to just keep taking any pain killers even if no pain as when it comes then I won’t have to wait until the meds kick in. Just keep hassling then and should be ok
the gas does move about quite a bit. Try and pass wind if you can. Peppermint tea helped loads for this with me. Then I pretty much fumigated my room but it was such a relief. Felt a bit embarrassed when the nurse came in but she encouraged it as it’s quite important to help things.
yes physio is important before getting up. There is a technique in getting up so as to reduce load/stress across all the stitches outside and in. Basically if you get out left side of bed for instance. You carefully roll onto left side before bringing knees up and over the side of the bed to help you articulate into an upright position. Plus they need to be sure you can stand ok with out pain. They will need to be happy with this and you can say use stairs before release...that’s the acid test so to speak.
They will want to get you mobile as soon as you have a leg catheter bag. Then building up to 2-3k a day walks. This helps massively with longer term outcome and it helps prevent scar tissue just forming and healing in one direction If that makes sense. More you move (gently) then is encourages the scare tissue to evolve in multiple directions meaning it will be more flexible in all directions later on as you heal.
TG