How painful is recovery from a hysterescopy and full d & c for endometrial thickening & how much time off work?

Time off work varies: from patient to patient. Most women have this as an outpatient usually on a Friday. Many return to work the following Monday. The major recovery is from the anesthesia and this depends on the drugs used and the speed at which your body clears them. Some women have mild to moderate bleeding post op but pain is usually not a problem.

Postop usually short: Hysteroscopy, D and C is usually a simple ambulatory procedure which usually causes little to minimal postop pelvic discomfort (often requiring no analgesics or only a few tablets of nonsteroidal meds like Advil, Motrin, Anaprox (naproxen) or Naproxen... for the first 12 to 24 hours). Most healthy women can return to their normal routines within 1 or 2 days. Many can do so much sooner.