That's so great to hear FF! I am so happy for you. I hope your CRS is gentle with you on your follow up and that he has great news for you. Keep us posted.

Great news and I hope that things get even better soon!

Oh a huge hooray for you, FF. I'm so happy you are feeling the progress. That is wonderful news.

Hope all goes well for you next week.... Glad to hear that you feeling better in all areas.. Fingers crossed it continues...

Thanks everyone :)

today has been slightly worse with very slight twinging pain throughout the day but not going to let it get me down. Looking forward to next week (in a weird way).

ff x

My bet is that you will have good days and not so good days for a while to come. Every time you have a day of discomfort, itching, weird feelings etc, you have to remind yourself that it's temporary. I went through this, and it lasted a few months. I had to keep reminding myself how much better it was than the full blown fissure. It was discouraging and depressing but I did get through it and so will you.
Try the estrogen cream maybe? I know you are male, but men have estrogen too, and it's good for healing. Worked for me, at least I think that was the thing that finally cured me.

Arghhhhhhh!!!!

Ok so work organised a skittles night and I agreed as I was feeling so good but today I had 2 BMs and all had gone to heck.

Bm wasn't that painful but after going to skittles I'm in agony down there!! Why?! It came on whilst I was picking the skittles up and felt an irritation but I've got home and the skin around the sphincter especially at 12:00 is red raw!!! I've got shooting pains just on the inside too and I feel like jumping off a cliff. Pain relief isn't helping nor did a sits bath.

On the plus side got a call from my surgeons secretary saying my crs wants to see me tomorrow instead of next week so will be crying in his office no doubt.

I just don't know what I've done! I was doing so well!!!!!

Hope tomorrow goes ok? You are in my thoughts..

Could be the bending down and picking things up. Bending was always bad for me. Hope it eases up soon, FF.

I agree with Scientist. Bending has given me trouble as I heal as sometimes I feel the tissue tightening and then it doesn't take much movement and the new tissue is so delicate and tears. It's usually just microtears but causes a lot of grief nonetheless. Hope you get back on track soon. Damn rollercoaster from hell this healing business is. Just curious, do apply any ointments down there? I find if I let the tissue get dry it is much more prone to getting that tight feeling and then tearing.