Hello-
Eight weeks ago I had a fissurectomy and hemmoroidectomy. It was tough the 2 weeks post surgery, but I felt pretty good at three weeks. I have a strenuous, outdoors job and I was back to work and doing pretty well. The last two weeks, however, I feel like I have stopped healing and may have even reinjured myself. I'm bleading, it hurts after a BM, and there is a good amount of discharge. I've been trying Aleve, Ibuprofen, etc. and nothing seems to work. I'm tempted to call my CRS and ask if he will prescribe a pain med of some sort; not sure if he will though. It is a different pain than my fissure pain, definitely not as bad since there is no associated spasm (thank god), but it still hurts like hell and is starting to affect my work all over again (I'm taking today off after a tough day on the job yesterday). I really thought I was on an upward path and am worried I'm heading back the direction i just came from. I went to the Doc the other day and was too sore for him to examine me internally, so he prescribed Percocet to take directly before my next appt. so I can go through with it.
Anybody else have this up and down type recovery? I don't read much about the surgery I had, I honestly thought I would end up with LIS since that seems to be the common one. My CRS said I didn't need it. The hemmy removal was a surprise as well, but the doc said it was interfering with the healing of the fissure and needed to be removed. A nice fella that responded to my intro post said hemmies are pretty painful to have removed, maybe that's my issue?
Thanks for letting me think "out loud" . Take care.
Chris