good luck to all the members going forward to having LIS and/or additional work done this month of February 2011!:
Feb. 8 : makem3
Feb. 10 : sphinctersaurus
Feb. 17 : bambi

Thank you HappyAss! I am now on Day 9 of no pain or bleeding and continually question if I am doing the right thing. All along I've had a fear of "making it worse" and that's where my mind is right now. Those who know me in the nonvirtual world keep reminding me of how fickle this thing is. At this point, I'm thinking what is the harm of going ahead with the surgery and having a frank conversation with the CRS beforehand that if when he gets "in there" if things really look fairly healed, he will do what seems best and not necessarily go ahead as planned. At the same time, the skin tag could be removed while I am out, rather than in his office and awake as he originally talked about. I have some mild itching/burning around the skin tag even now after a BM and know that if I were in the least bit other than super gentle with washing or wiping, that thing alone would get irritated again and bother me and bleed. I'd be happy to say goodbye to skin tag- although I haven't named mine yet!

Good Luck February LISers! Things are on there way back to normal for you guys

Hey Dawn-
I was looking at some posts the other day and someone mentioned how scared you were pre-surgery. I am becoming increasingly scared- anything you can share about which things scared you the most and if those actually came to pass or were better/worse than you thought. I know some of this from reading your posts before, but now I am not remembering it all. Thanks!
Bambi

Bambi,
I really was terrified and it must have been obvious in my posts. I was scared I would never get well, that LIS could make my situation worse, that I may have chosen the wrong CRS( I researched her on the internet and picked her out myself).
She was great, did an awesome job and everything she told me was pretty accurate to how things went.
I was worried about the pain and if I could handle it-
It was much easier than I had imagined. I was sore but nothing like spasms or fissure pain.
I worried about the pain meds constipating me- the bm's were a little harder for a few days but I was only using the colace. I believe if I had been taking the miralax that wouldn't have been a problem. I did stop the pain meds by the second night. I just didn't really need them.
I did have to get valium for some spasms after my surgery.
Worried about the first BM- It was basically painless compared to the fissure before LIS. I had some incomplete small bm's until I got the valium and then the spasms stopped and I had normal bm's. They weren't painful. Just a sore feeling and I think that was where the tag was removed.
I worried about incontinence- nothing but passing some gas right after LIS which I welcomed because it was so painful and hard to do before.
I worried about the anesthesia. I didn't want to be aware or feel anything. It was MAC with the numbing shots in the rear. I wasn't aware of and didn't feel anything.
Bambi, I could go on and on....I have never been so scared in my life. A million things went through my mind.
I honestly had imagined things being so much worse than what it actually was. It just really amazed me when it was over and I was a little sore. Nothing unbearable, nothing like dealing with the fissure and spasm.
There's one post(Tabby's) on here that I kept reading over and over and tried to stay positive. She had a tag removed and LIS too. Small change (another boardie) had surgery right before I did and he really helped me to stay positive.
The only thing I have regretted about my surgery is not having it sooner.
Just try to stay positive as you can, Bambi! If you have any questions, please ask.... You can PM me if ya want too.

Thank you Dawn!