OK guys - I have a LIS date. These dates are completely subject to change as I do not have my new school schedule yet. I will have my new schedule sometime this week. I thought it was better to go ahead and schedule it now, and reschedule later if I have to. The dates are...

Aug 14 - Surgery consult
Aug 22 - LIS @ 2 pm

They wanted to have me do LIS on the 15th, however my hubby is in the military and will be out of town that week and I need him to help out with the baby. I really would have loved to have done the 15th!!

Gosh - I hope I am doing the right thing. You all will have to listen to me change my mind 40 times in the next 2 1/2 weeks. I am just not feeling that bad anymore. I have been on MOM everynight and things just feel so good after a tablespoon of the magic MOM. My retare actually closed up fast - in like 4 days.

At least you have a date now and that should give you piece of mind if things get worse between now and then. That is great it is healing up nicely though.

Good luck, Jen. The srugery is really simple (like a 5 min job) and the recovery is not bad at all, though you definitely will not want to run around for a few days because of the anesthesia, etc. Hot salty baths and irrigating the area with saline and iodine solution really helped.

Thats good news Jen :)

Does anyone know if they just cut the sphincter or do they cut and suture it?

is that almost like asking what is the difference between an LIS and a fissurectomy?

they just make a cut in the sphincter. you shouldn't have any stitches with LIS. good luck, and i hope this brings an end to your pain!

iamtiredofthis wrote:Buttgirl - My lack of painful spasms concern me with healing. I know you said you had the same "tension" feeling that I have. Did your tension increase with any regular sized bowel movement? Basically, my BM's are painless, unless they are larger than a finger. It does not hurt when I put cream in with my finge (maybe a little stinging). It just seams to really hurt if I have a normal sized BM. I never have large BM's because I am never constipated. Also, once in a great while for no reason I feel sharp pinching or stabbing in the area - Does that sound like spasms?

That sounds like what I had. The LIS really reduced the tension. It took me a while to figure out that I wasn't having intermittent spasms like other people seem to get. I just thought I had a tight butt, but then I applied some cream once after having gone wine tasting and I was like whoa this is loose. That is when I figured I had a constant clench that was preventing healing. LIS mades the area much more relaxed and loose, but not loose enough to be a problem. So I am healing and it is much easier to poo relatively normally. (I say I an "healing" because my cut was huge--bascially an abscess cavity (1/4inch by 1cm at least)--it ooked like I had a hole in my butt.

Thanks so much BG!! You have really calmed my nerves about these minor/nonexistant spasms of mine. Yeah - the creams work great, but without them I am toast!
Are you still healing? Where was your abcess cut? Didn't you say it was from an external skin tag? Was you original fissure healed already and you had LIS because what the abcess left behind?
I think most of my discomfort comes from an external area. When is area of my fissure breaks open, I know the blood supply sucks because it never bleeds! Sometimes I wish I would have blood just to show there is some blood supply!

good luck for your surgery jen, i'm sure you'll be really pleased once its over and done with, and i'm sure it will do the trick as the creams have helped so much so you know the problem is the tightness. the recovery and the procedure isnt that bad, and i had a fistulotomy and stitches from the tag removal at the same time as lis and i stil didnt think it was that bad. you've got through the pain of the fissure, you can get through the lis a breeze!


i've always wondered about the blood not getting to the area too, becaus when i first got my fisure it bled huge amounts every day for ages and yet they say theres not enough blood getting there-i dont understand??