Hi guys,
I’ve never posted on forums before, but I’ve been reading so many of your helpful posts and realised what a help this must be for so many, as it is for me. So thank you all!
I’ve had a healing and re-tearing fissure for almost 6 years now, and it’s changed my life in a big way. Work, family and social life have all suffered equally.
Sooo, I’m due to have LIS surgery in 8 days (3rd November) and I’m looking for a little encouragement! My fear isn’t about the surgery itself, or the healing period, but about the risk of not healing my fissure.
The fissure seems to be located on the left hand side of my rectum, not in the typical 12 or 6 position that most people seem to be describing. I asked the CRS why this could be, and he didn’t seem to be too worried, he just said that the LIS would be able to cure the problem regardless of position. I’m worried that if it’s not a typical fissure, maybe it won’t respond to LIS? Have any of you had this problem?
Also, when I have a BM, the pain is what I would describe as moderate only. But around 2 hours later, the REAL pain kicks in and it’s pretty debilitating for a few hours until around 2pm when it starts to die down. Is this something that you guys have experienced?
I’ve changed my diet to include a good deal of fibre, loads of water, magnesium citrate tablets and docusate sodium once a day. My stools are not really hard, except occasionally the beginning bit (although they could be feeling hard due to the discomfort and tightness of the sphincter), but the pain almost always comes at the intervals described above.
Any help would be much appreciated, it’s just nice to be able to write this down and know that somebody may read it!
Thanks in advance.
RC