Hi AF-friends
I am 2 days shy of being 3 weeks post-op fissurectomy with Botox - feeling a bit in the minority considering the popularity of those who get LIS on this site. I had a 2 week post-op follow up last monday where the surgeon said I was still really swollen and inflamed down there. She warned me that my recovery might be a little slow because once she was inside during the surgery, there was a lot of infected scar tissue she had to remove and the fissure was so deep that she ended up sewing it up. And apparently the reason for the continued swollen-inflamed state of things down there was because I had a minor setback the week before when I missed a bowel movement one day (despite taking 1-3 colace, miralax & metamucil daily) - got concerned so the next morning i took milk of magnesia - bad move, bcz then I had diahrea 4 x in the following 24-hrs which irritated the tissue. She stressed the importance of getting my stool back to a solid, soft consistency (no duh, was working on that since the diahrea) and urged me to back off all the softening agents, but keep the metamucil fiber pills (with lots of water), which i gradually did thru the rest of the week. However, now that my stool has resumed a solid consistency for the first time since the surgery - i am having as much pain during and after as right after surgery (not spasms like before the surgery, just searing-sharp-tearing pain) and have continued to bleed with every BM too - taking up to 6-8 hot sitz baths a day to manage and returned to half days at work last week. Has anyone else encountered this? continued bleeding and pain 3 weeks out?
thanks in advance :)