Hi Everyone,
I know I have not been around much lately--been busy with the new job and new life. But I do remember wishing to hear success stories when i was in the awful throws of my bottom suffering, so I thought I would post a note to let you know that I haven't forgotten about you, but also to let you know that i am doing well.
Oct. 13 marked 7 mos since my LIS. It seems like an eternity ago. About a month ago, the last traces of consistent pain vanished. Im not sre what happened, but one day i applied some lanolin to the area and it hasn't hurt since. i still do get a shocking twinge every now and then, but it is not connected to any action (liek bm or standing) and feels more like touch memory than a wound. I think my rear is paying tricks on me. I am still diligent with my magnesium pills. I take 500mg.day and that aseems to keep everything soft and regular enough for me. I take on tablespoon of benefiber every monring in my tea and otherwise just eat healthy. I can drink again and have really been enjoying my wine and whiskey (perhaps too much). I still haven't got up the gumption to try red wine. That was the #1 alcohol taboo for me, I think because it is so astringent.
I still have pain in my hip, but it seems unrelated. It focuses more just below where the lower back meets the pelvic bone and them into the hip socket itself. I am going to the dr for this again soon. for a while they thought it was an ovarian cyst, but an ultrasound has since confirmed that there is not cyst.
So basically, I guess what I am saying is that for the first time in nearly three years, I feel healthy (knock on major amounts of wood). It's hard an unpleasant to remember that this time last year, I was really suffering. I remember thinking last Halloween that I would treat myself to a few glasses of wine and try not to think abou the pain they would cause me in the morning.
I guess I am also saying that 6 mos post-LIS was the magic time for me. It is like I got new lease on life.
I wish drs. didn't say 6-8 weeks. Sometimes it takes much longer than that, like 6-8 mos.
thanks for all your support through the suffering. I would have been lost without you all.
:mrt: