by Guest » 07 Nov 2007, 14:21
Juney, I can totally relate to your situation. I asked my surgeon on Monday if he thought I needed a second LIS, and he said no because my fissures are too small and superficial to warrant surgery. From what I understand, I just have inflammation in the area which makes the skin very prone to fissuring at the slightest provocation. I wasn't going to have a second LIS regardless of what he said, because I don't want any more trauma down there and I'm not in too much pain. When I was there on Monday he also told me to try meditation, which almost made me laugh. I understand the role stress plays in delaying the healing process, but come on. It annoys me that when they fail, they just blame us for not helping ourselves enough!!!! We have changed our entire diet for them and we've been putting up with this problem for months... We've been anally probed, poked and tampered with countless times, and now they want us to meditate??? Give me a break.
In terms of pain, I only have some with BMs. It scrapes and burns. Then it goes away. At first, when my fissure was fresh, it was excruciating and brought me to tears... but now it's just painful for a couple of seconds and I'm fine afterward. It's not a huge deal, but the fact that it keeps happening and that it won't heal completely is what gets to me. I feel like something in my stool is burning my bum when it comes out, so I avoid anything acidic and it's usually not too bad. Tomatoes makes hell break loose. I don't think I'll ever be able to eat those again.