Hi everyone-
Tomorrow will be 4 weeks after LIS and skin tag removal for me. The CRS also put one stitch in the fissure. My incision site is totally pain free at this point and for the first couple of weeks it bothered me more than anything. I saw the CRS a week ago yesterday and he felt things were healing well , even though the skin tag area had been irritated more for me the day or two before that. I almost felt like it was coming back, but he said it was not. The CRS clipped a stitch that was in that area and said it had outlived it's usefulness. He said something about that I might see a thread or something and to just leave it alone. The first day or so after I saw him, I thought the skin tag area was better. Then there were a couple of days with increased irritation with BMs in that area a little bit. I have not seen blood since a day or so after surgery until last night. Right before bed, I had my third BM and it was a little firmer (still soft). I don't know how to explain the weird feeling afterward other than that it felt like something was still sitting in the verge area there- almost grainy feeling (which I assumed was some stool that just didn't come out). There was a tiny dot of what looked like blood on the tp which freaked me out although I know in theory that could happen. I soaked a while and then slept almost 10 hours! I woke up today generally down and with more irritation in the skin tag area than I have had in at least 2 weeks. I am so frustrated- I would like to start walking but going to Costco and walking around the store resulted in a discharge or soiling on my undies that looks like a tiny bit of blood mixed with stool. So I soaked in the tub and when I would sit on one side, it was an "ouch" moment. Got out and looked up there- there is a little loop of what looks like gold thread sitting right by the skin tag site- so I wonder if anyone else has had this increased irritation and a little bleeding when the stitches start coming out or dissolving or whatever. I am hoping this is part of a healing process and not a setback. In the bathtub, I found myself just paralyzed with fear and like I just couldn't face another setback. I know I can, but for a second there I just felt that I can't face another thing moment. Sometime in the next week is the one year anniversary of this current fissure crisis, which I think colors my thinking. I can and I will tackle what needs to happen. But has anyone had any similar time during the healing after LIS and skin tag? Did you notice stitches or thread at any point and did it cause a little bleeding when it came loose? The other weird thing I have noticed today and once before a week or so ago was something floating in the tub with me. It almost looks like a tiny piece of pencil shavings- a tiny piece of tan material about an 1/8 to 1/8 square that is rather stiff. Is this something from the surgery site coming loose as well? I noticed the other piece about a week ago floating near me in the tub.
Thanks-
Bambi