by Guest » 11 Feb 2008, 00:52
G'day Amber
My prayers & thoughts are with you during this time of shocking pain. I had an LIS 3 weeks ago. They removed several external & internal haemorrhoids, 3 skin tags, 2 polyps and fixed the anal fissure. All the advice that Lecia, Kim, Val, Juney etc have given to you & will continue to give, is priceless. A lot of the pain I experienced during the first 10-12 days was made bearable because I knew there were people in this forum who were thinking of me, praying for me & encouraging me to ride out the storm.
If there was anything I could add to the advice & support that these wonderful people have already given to you, Amber, it would be this bit of spiritual wisdom:
The way to reduce pain is to change the way you behold it. Nothing is painful in & of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking. Pain results from a judgement you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement & the pain diappears. Judgement is often based on previous experience. Your idea about a thing derives from a prior idea about that thing. Your prior idea results from a still prior idea - and that idea from another, & so forth, until you get all the way back in the hall of mirrors to "first thought". All thought is creative & no thought is more powerful than original thought. That is why this is sometimes also called original sin.
Original sin is when your first thought about a thing is in error. That error is compounded many times over when you have a second or third thought about a thing.
So when it's time to have a BM, try to think positively & don't fill your mind with thoughts of pain. It's difficult, I don't deny that. But as time went by I was able to control my thoughts a lot more & this really helped the pain to be more bearable.
You will get better quickly & you will grow wiser from the experience.
Just remember we're all here for you.