by Jbl22424 » 16 Jun 2014, 18:30
Surgery has a 98% success rate from what I've read and what docs told me. I read that women who have or will had (not sure) 2 ore more children are more likely to experience incontinence issues. I'm sure you could find the study by googling, that was how I found it. I believe incontinence issues includes gas or mucus incontinence. I have not read anything about any risk of stool incontinence, one doctor told me that's because the external sphincter muscle holds in stool and they don't touch that. So... I am in the high risk category but had LIS and do not regret it one bit! A few people have posted on here who have what they call leakage after a BM - half hour later they have to go back and clean up again. It seems worrisome for some but others would gladly trade that for fissure pain.
Developed fissure from constipation due to breastfeeding 7 weeks after delivery (Jan 2014)
Nifedepine
Colace
Magnesium
Miralax - godsend
Nitro - some improvement
LIS (May 2014) - cured for 3 months then setback
Diltiazem
Feeling better for now