Pain around wound area from swimming

I had my takedown on May 29th, so it's only been a little over a month but when I was released from the hospital, my surgeons said that I can go swimming but just be careful to cleanse the wound each time.

So I decided to wait till my stoma wound closed to go in the water. I rejoined my swim class this past Thursday and our instructor made is swim a lot during the entire hour, but I enjoyed it.

It wasn't until 2 days later (today) that my thighs and arms and my wound area was in pain. I can understand my thighs and my arms...the muscles there probably just hurt from not having swam in a while so I'm sorta waiting it out till the pain goes away, but regarding my stoma wound area....I don't know if it's the muscles or what but it hurts when I sneeze and cough and laugh and turn around when I'm in bed. I'm worried whether I did something to damage my scar inside?

So I went to see my orthopedic and he touched my stomach/intestine area and told me that it was hard. The other day, he had mentioned the same thing but I gathered that it was because I went to see him with a full stomach but this time, I was rather on an empty stomach and he still mentioned that it was hard....any meaning to this...?

When I started swimming again (no takedown) I had nausea because my ab muscles were spasming and pushing on my stoma. Something similar might be going on w/your ab muscles pushing on your wound.

What helped me was slowing down, light self-massage, and hot baths (not so appealing in July....).

But please, slow down. Your body has been through a lot, and you need to ease in .... can't just start where all the people who've been doing this every week are.... much as that might be disappointing, you'll get in shape faster if you take care of yourself and avoid overdoing it.

Thank you, guys, for your feedback. Yeah, I decided to slow down a bit but it's so hard to do so when you're normally feeling fine but your body just wants to go out there and move - decided to rest tomorrow (lesson day). And yes！thanks for the advice to take a hot bath and massage the area. It helped a lot! I mean, it makes you feel calmer. Thanks ;)