workingonit wrote:Sweet,
If you like deep dish pizza, you should try Zachary's in the Berkeley (also one in Oakland). It's like a cross between deep dish pizza and pie. Hard to describe. One piece will stuff you silly!
Tom, you can always try using some vaseline before a BM when you stop the rectogesic. I wouldn't stop the movical and the cream at the same time. Just in case, IMO.
-Tanya

Tanya, I'll remember that! - and if I don't, I'll be sure to pm you, next time we head up that way.
How are you feeling, btw?

Hey Sweet,
Doing pretty good. Healing is so slow, but it is happening. The bathroom doesn't haunt me like it used to.
Thanks for asking.
That's terrific, that you finally turned the corner!
Seems forever, but I bet once we are past this time, it will fade to an unpleasant memory pretty quickly!
-Tanya

Hi Rangertom,
Are you healed or is your GTN just about to run out? You could always stop the cream for a day or so as a trial run.
Stick with the Movicol for a while yet though, i feel way better but still insist on a sachet of Movicol each evening.
Living in Covent Garden is great (and expensive of course) however the attraction of alcohol and fast food on your doorstep is no good for a fissure!!
Ohh and guys the closest i can get to Chicago Pizzas are Chicago Town frozen pizzas sold in supermarkets :(
Davo

Davo wrote:Hi Rangertom,
Are you healed or is your GTN just about to run out? You could always stop the cream for a day or so as a trial run.
Stick with the Movicol for a while yet though, i feel way better but still insist on a sachet of Movicol each evening.
Living in Covent Garden is great (and expensive of course) however the attraction of alcohol and fast food on your doorstep is no good for a fissure!!
Ohh and guys the closest i can get to Chicago Pizzas are Chicago Town frozen pizzas sold in supermarkets :(
Davo

Really? There's such a thing as Chicago Town frozen pizzas?? I'll have to look for those. As it is, I'm nearly 2,000 miles away from Chicago.

workingonit wrote:Hey Sweet,
Doing pretty good. Healing is so slow, but it is happening. The bathroom doesn't haunt me like it used to.
Thanks for asking.
That's terrific, that you finally turned the corner!
Seems forever, but I bet once we are past this time, it will fade to an unpleasant memory pretty quickly!
-Tanya

Hi, Tanya - I'm glad you're healing - and yes, I do know how slow it is -- even after my surgery, it's taken a long while to feel better. I still feel sore and a bit achey - and I'm really watching myself like a hawk (my diet, fiber, etc.) -- but my crs said last week that I'm 90% healed. It make take quite awhile longer, before I feel completely healed and confident - but I'm better, and that's something.

Hey Sweet,
Yes, so much of it is psychological. Only time will heal that part. My mom said it was a good year after she healed before she started to feel comfortable in the bathroom again.
-Tanya

workingonit wrote:Hey Sweet,
Yes, so much of it is psychological. Only time will heal that part. My mom said it was a good year after she healed before she started to feel comfortable in the bathroom again.
-Tanya

Tanya, that is sooooo true! Even though my new crs checked me (just last week) and said I'm almost healed - and even though he didn't see anything awry - I still feel like the fear is holding me hostage. With any little twinge, or any ache or bit of soreness, that "fissure fear" comes back.
It's been such a nightmare, just to try to get past this, that I still feel very emotionally shaky about it. Physically, I'm better - but I'll have to be symptom free for a long time, before I ever let go of the fear - and I'm not sure I'll even let go of it, at that point.
But I'm trying.

it's great to hear that you guys are all on the mend to some degree or another.
my healing continues too. had a few more uncomfortable days, but today and yesterday has gone well enough for me to resume my dance classes. I dare say I felt symptom free during and after my dance class today. Reminds me how much of the psychological/emotional component plays into my symptoms. so weird, some days it hurts more to move, other days - moving helps it hurt less. just trying to do my best to do what i can without it totally running my life.
ps, i lived in chicago and now I'm in nyc and i have to say, despite the fact that it's a total belly-bomb, deep-dish is the way to go. but i can honestly say I do not recall the last time i had a deep dish pizza.

sailorgal - I think it's true that the psychological/emotional components play into our symptoms.
I tend to obsess over certain things - health issues, in particular - so, if I'm feeling some aching or discomfort down below, I feel the dread and fear coming on.
Though I had LIS and a fissurectomy over two months' ago, I'm having trouble shaking the fear I had before the surgery - the fear that the pain will escalate and never go away. I know I'm on the mend . . . but when I feel any soreness, I start obsessing and wonder IF I am, indeed, on the mend. Ya know what I mean?
Like you, I'm trying to do my best to do what I can, without letting this experience control me. I hope that as I heal, the obsessive fear and dread (and depression that comes along as a result) will fade away.
Dance class is good. Anything to enjoy your life and keep going is a good thing.

Hey Davo,
I think I prob may need LIS. I had a alittle blood on my TP (no more than the tip of a pen) today even though everything came out smooth and no pain/strain at all. :( I had no issues in the last 3 weeks and now this..ugh. I wish this thing will just heal.
So from my LIS research, the incision is made from the outside? So they don't stick any instruments inside during the surgery other than maybe to look at the fissure. Are there stitches put in?
The pain that everyone talks about after the surgury is really that incision site then? Well I guess it can also be their fissure if it was painful to begin with.
I'm just trying to understand/ prepare myself for what I may have to face. I think i do prob have a high internal sphincter resting pressure since sometimes it seems tough to just insert my index finger to put in ointment.
I also sit all day at work and drive a manual, I wonder if that contributed to any of this or are you born with a higer resting pressure.
Do you feel like you can resume excercising and running 2 months out from now? Im afraid I can't drive my manual car into work as I recover and I'll lose all my muscle mass in the months that I will be down resting.