I’m sorry; that’s so frustrating. I feel everyone responds differently to surgery, anesthetic, and the related medications. And doctors tend to quote what’s “typical.” For example, I am a kidney donor, and they told me within 2 weeks people are back to their everyday activities because it’s a “minimally invasive” surgery. It took me MONTHS to be back to myself and I even had appetite loss and difficulty eating. That’s a little more extreme, but I just wanted to compare what the doctors said I “should” experience vs. what actually happened.

Both my mom and I experienced pretty severe fatigue after our surgeries (she had a knee replacement) and also dizziness. I have POTS, which can cause dizziness, and I also have central sensitivity which makes my body more sensitive to changes and I’m more likely to experience side effects and pain for a longer amount of time. She does not.

For both of us, it eventually got better with rest and slow, graded exposure to exercise, starting seated and then progressing to being upright.

As I understand it, it’s also pretty common to have fatigue after being in bed for a long time, but I’m not sure if that happened in your situation.