Hi All,
I've been reading this forum for a while for tips, and I do thank literally everyone as I feel like I've read them all. I've been dealing with AF for about 2 years, but have no other major digestive or GI issues. Think mine was caused by an initial injury that just didn't heal well.
Right now I'm living pain free, but I'm on quite a LOT of miralax, so by no means cured. I'm trying self dilation using dilatan dilators, because I was having to progressively increase laxative usage and I thought I could reverse that trend and maybe heal things. I started super conservative at 7mm a few weeks ago, and am currently at 14mm.
Anyways, thought it was a little disingenuous to just lurk on this forum, although I'd bet there are more lurkers than posters.
I have no idea how to cure an AF, but for pain free try 3 doses of Miralax and 1 tsp of NaturalCalm per day along with a TON of water, and eat plenty of fiber. The dilation thing is pretty new for me, if that doesn't work out I'll try a LIS, but I'm pretty worried about that and really cannot take a week off life to recover (which is the minimum I think it would take me).
No time to write a really detailed post, but I'm sure I'll be back. My goal is to gradually increase by 1mm increments up to like 25mm dilation, and to use miralax to keep it fast and loose until I can do so, will check in to let folks know how it's going.
Thanks! CAR