Hi cheryl!!! I saw in another post where you said you had fissurectomy. What exactly did the surgeon do? I thought when i went into surgery that they would remove the fissure. My surgeon said they just do the LIS and cauterize the edges of the fissure to promote healing. He said that it would be worse if they put a stitch in the fissure cuz it will reopen and poo would get inside and set up infection. I notice that some people have fissurectomies, LIS, or just stitch the fissure. It seems that the people who say they have fissurectomy tend to heal much faster than those with just LIS. I am 5 wks post op and although i am much, much , much , much , better than before i feel that my healing has been slow. I feel like i am healing surgery wounds and the fissure now. Just wondering what exactly a fissurectomy is.
See ya
Christina

Hey Christina..
:oops: I feel slightly embarrassed now... when the dr wrote down that I was having a 'fissurectomy' - the removal of the fissure and the schincterectomy (incision of the muscle) - I thought nothing more about it - i thought the fissurectomy was just a removal of the fissure??? How silly of me not to ask how. I am going to see my CRS next week for my follow up appt - I will ask whether it was cauterised or fixed and stitched..
Im sorry I dont have an answer for you now - but I will endeavour to find out - I am very intrigued now

OK - so I went in for my follow up appt today - unfortunately I did not get my surgeon this was annoying, but hey i guess this is the joy of going public..
I asked him exactly how the procedures were done.. I explained of my knowledge of the cauterisation method, and also the fissure removal and stitching method.. he started shaking his head at me and said .. "no no no no no, none of these" I was like
So he went on to explain that they cut away the skin tags from the fissure, then cut the lateral incision into the sphincter muscle... and that was it! Not only is the cutting of the muscle to relax the sphincter for BM's, its also to allow the fissure (or tear) to heal itself un-obstructively and without pressure.
.. is it wrong of me to be 'un-convinced'?? I am going to make an appointment to see my surgeon, even if i have to pay for it and clarify this matter.. cos even my GP said somthing different.

YOU JUST DESCRIBED WHAT I HAD DONE HUN...
IM SOOOO GOOD SOOO FAR!!! :lol!: