Hi there - well I saw the CRS yesterday and we had a chat - he examined me with his finger, and two telescopes - the breathing I learnt for child birth came in handy as it was uncomfortable. He seemed very nice and said I had three things going on- lucky me!
Firstly :) , a Rectosele -which is a tear in the tissue( probably due to child birth- thanks kids!) that divides the vagina and the rectum - this is the route of my problem - it makes a kind of pocket in my rectum which poo stays in after my bowel movement - then the poo goes all hard and sharp and then I feel like I have to strain to evacuate it. There : a cause for my AF problems!
Secondly :roll: I also have a chronically inflamed anus - abnormal skin growing which is a reaction to the inflammation.
Thirdly I have my AF ! Lucky me! He is giving me a cream to sort out the inflamation which I use twice a day for 6 weeks, then I have to use it 2 times a week for another 6 weeks, but after the first 6 weeks he wants to perform a Fissurectomy with two injections of botox to relax the area, he said this was a more conservative approach than an LIS - my continence he said was a gift from God and his main concern was to do me no harm in this area.
After that the CRS said that there were three options to deal with the Rectosele - stapling, appying gauze laparoscopically -which was very specialised and not many surgeons can do this in the UK or the final option of getting a Gynecologist to shore up the membrane from the other side ( the vagina) which he seemed to prefer because it would be best for my continence.
He said I could carry on using nitro if i wanted to but shrugged off any interest in it working. Is this because he is a surgeon and likes to cut? What does everybody think? any experience of Fissurectomies out there? Have other people had similiar problems? or solutions suggested by their CRS? Any ideas?
Can I just say at this point that having surgery terrifies me?