What kind of pain will I have if I've done any damage lifting more than I should 5 weeks after a total abdominal hysterectomy? I have a straight up incision because they also had to remove a 5+ lb fibroid in my uterus as part of the surgery. It was a bag of groceries that I put onto a cart with wheels that was heavier than I wanted to lift but I was reshuffling so they wouldn't fall off my cart. I dragged the bottom bag back onto the cart, but lifted the 2nd bag on top of the bottom bag after that. Thankfully someone came along and gave me a ride home, so I didn't have to wheel the whole effort home again, as originally planned. There were 3 small cans of veggies, a sort of heavy purse and a shirt in the top bag, but the heavier bag I shuffled along the floor with a tug to get back onto the cart, had a 1.75 ltr jug of OJ, a handful of small to med potatoes, a head of leaf lettuce and a bunch of celery. I'm in a little more abdominal pain today than I was before I did all this yesterday and there is a little sharp pain near my incision, when I lean forward from the couch to pick a cup off the coffee table.