WEEK 6 POST OP.
Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good day today :D
Well, I would love to be able to turn round and say I feel healed and great... but the reality is, I'm STILL sore on & off!!!
I seemed to have developed a pattern of 3 BM's a day, which are always soft (perhaps a little too soft at times) so no straining or anything, but it's sore and I'm experiencing moderate pain when passing them. (but it's bearable).....The pain lasts a little while and I can feel it all going on down there but probably only on a scale of 1 to 2. The pain feels like when you foolishly strained (in the past!) to have a very large firmer stool that hurts your bottom for a short while after passing it!! Kind of that after soreness and pulsating feeling...Ibruprofen really helps but I don't always feel that I need to take it. I'm 99% certain I don't have an infection. The healing site looks great....the groove is still visible but it's not red raw and looks to be healing OK.... I'm getting a few twinges now and again but nothing consistent so I'm hoping this is healing!! Just a different "stage" of the process. Unfortunately, there's a bit of itching too so no idea if that's related or maybe pile related. I have discovered a couple of additional external hemmies since my op, so fear that this might be causing some itching too.
Honestly I never realised my bum was in such a poor condition!!!.........
So, it's a bit disappointing after reading some posters' super-speedy recovery but I'm keeping my chin up and waiting for the day when I really notice a positive change in the healing process and hanging in for my follow-up with my CRS at the end of August...
I guess I may be a slow healer, but I'm still hopeful x x