Shower/Baths & Preperations

I would LOVE to know what you girls did before surgery day within your shower or baths. Can I have a shower the same day, including washing my hair and cleaning myself with body wash as I normally would? Asking considering you can’t wear perfume or make up or mousitroze your face either so unsure if any shampoo products and body wash products would be the same, if that’s the case can I just wash myself as I normally would the night before hand and then on day of surgery just jump in a quick bath and just rince myself down with water??

Also, what did everyone pack for their surgery day? So far I’ve got a neck pillow, zip up jackets so I can easily get them off, 2 pair of spare knickers, boyfriends joggers so I can just easily put them on too instead of trying to squeeze in jeans or leggings, my charger & my MYA post op bra. Anything else at all that I may need or will all this be fine?? Thanks in advance x

I had a shower as normal the night before, it ended up being quite late so maybe 11pm ish. Washed my hair with shampoo and conditioner as normal and washed my lower half with body wash as normal but I didn’t put any body wash on my top half. No deodorant the day of surgery either! And made sure I rinsed my whole body from top to bottom with plenty of water afterwards just to make sure no shampoo was left anywhere on my chest area.

Don’t forget to bring that jacket or something similar with you, I know it’s nice weather at the moment but if you get discharged late in the evening, I found the combination of it being a little chilly in the evening and the effects of the anaesthetic made me shiver, which hurt. I wish I’d have thought to take a jumper or a cardigan x

I was given ‘hibiscrub’ to body wash with the night before and the morning of the op!

Def take a jumper or jacket I wasn’t discharged until gone 9pm and I was freezing!

Thank you everyone!!!

I showered that morning as normal and did my skincare routine on my face but didn’t put anything on my body. Don’t think bodywash is too much of an issue. I packed the same as you but also a magazine as I waited around for a while. and some snacks for after surgery because they took a while to bring the food and I was starving!

I showered night before and in the morning just like normal, I’d take some lip balm I woke up with the driest lips lol x

@sarah thank you so much I’ll deffo be taking that with me now x

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