Quote from: Miss Lux on October 22, 2016, 03:31:14 AM
Just curious, Would you know if your stitches break or if your surgery failed ? Would you feel it? Is it normal not to feel pain/ soreness on the third day?
I'm of the belief that if any stitches break anywhere on the body, you're going to feel it. For me, it wasn't so much any pain and soreness after the surgery, but a general feeling of blah is the best way to describe it. You put your body through a lot with the surgery, so let it rest and heal. Get your mind off of it. It's done and you won't know what the outcome will exactly be until some weeks later. This is why I say this is the most difficult of all the surgeries, even more difficult than GRS, because you can't readily see or hear the results. You have to wait... and for the impatient among us, of which I am one, we just have to find out now... or yesterday
The temptation to speak and test whether or not your voice sounds higher will overwhelm you during your vocal rest period. Please try to refrain from doing so. You won't be able to hear it in your whispers, only when air vibrates the vocal cords which are very delicate things that need to heal (read this paragraph again and again). Think about it... there is a stitch binding the bottom 40-45% of your vocal cords. It is a bloody mess right now. The only way for it to heal is to not speak. If you do, it's like pulling a Band-Aid off of a wound again and again. If you keep doing that, the wound will open up and not heal right.
After your vocal rest, you can speak, but that's not the time to assess whether or not the surgery was a success, either. Your voice will slowly come along and improve over time. Very slowly. It is likely one of the biggest tests of patience you may endure. Imagine improvement like putting a speck of sand in a bucket and waiting for it to fill up. That's what I've learned so far... and if you're patient, you will see a glorious end result.
