After being in the hospital 🏥 for (3) weeks and being on Gabapentin I spent another month in a nursing home to learn how to change my COLOSTOMY BAG.
I was on Gabapentin for at least (90) days after that.
I was also on a "RED"
Capsule, I can't remember what it was called but it did help with the pain I had but the doctor prescribed it once I got home use only as needed for pain.
So answer to your question, I would say at
least (120) days.
But I had special circumstances with my recovery. (4) days after my surgery I went for a walk and my surgical area opened back up again and about a pint and a half of blood poured out of my anus so the surgeon had to come from home and do emergency surgery again to close up my anus area.
He told me he put some kind of stainless steel clip in to hold everything closed and told me not to walk until "I" felt comfortable with walking.
I don't know for sure, but I think that is why I went to the nursing home so they could keep an eye on everything so it wouldn't happen again.
I hope this is helpful to you?
But I did have pain for a very long time.
But then again, you have to consider the surgeon removed (15)
centimeters of my anus and rectal area and (8) millimeters of my sigmoid colon where I had "CANCER" ♋!
But I consider myself very lucky that the cancer ♋ was caught on time before it spread to other parts of my body.