# @katieaknowles on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMPkvciIjml
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59777580-katieaknowles-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d951b3c334.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-18T09:09:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Katie Knowles (@katieaknowles) — https://gondola.cc/katieaknowles

## Caption

A little day-in-the-life post-hysterectomy 💛

Tried to wear leggings today to feel like a person… lasted 7 minutes before getting back into Nick’s boxers and a T-shirt.

Still bloated, still sore, still spending 90% of the day horizontal.
BUT, I got to take off those god-awful surgical stockings!!!

Another fun addition to my sans uterus era: brain fog 🧠💨
I can barely string a sentence together or type properly, which is great when you rely on typing for work.

They didn’t remove my ovaries, but they did warn me that with the effects of hormones and even some just post surgery malarkey, that I could experience symptoms.

Also now walking with a slight elderly lean and getting breathless after literally anything.  I’m such a catch it’s lucky that I married him before choosing to do this 😂

I’ve been working from bed, trying to distract myself from the absolute boredom (and the emotional ambush when babies appear on TV).

I miss doing things for myself. I miss feeling like me.  And the body stuff is rough. I’ve got another four scars on my stomach, and I just don’t really want to look at myself at the moment.
But today I did my hair and a bit of makeup, just to feel a little more human.  And I honestly think it did a lot for my self-confidence, even if it was just for being in the house. 

I just keep looking to a pain-free future to try and pull myself out of it.

The love I’ve had on here has blown me away.
Women supporting women. Sharing stories. Saying thank you.
It’s a double edge sword, because on the one hand it’s awful to see so many women with such sad and painful stories, but on the other, it has been so wonderful to make what I have gone through and I’m going through feel more normal and understood.

Instagram has felt like a safe space, unlike the Daily Mail comments, which I wisely won’t be reading 🙃

PS. After filming all of these calm moments, the dishwasher door fell off onto me as I was getting a mug out, it’s battered my leg and it feels like I’ve pulled something inside moving too quickly. A big reminder why I keep getting told to take it easy 🤦🏽‍♀️

#PostHysterectomy #WomensHealth #HealingNotHiding #HonestRecovery #Endometrosis

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endometrosis, posthysterectomy, honestrecovery, healingnothiding, womenshealth

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