Hello,
Well I have had one round of botox with really no success. My doc recommended another round with a fissurectomy this time to remove the scar tissue to hopefully aid healing. Both doctors I have seen have said I really need LIS but strong discouraged me from getting it because I am a young female (25) who has not had children yet. Said it can cause incontinence after having children even if all is well after surgery. So, not really a candidate for that. I need to try something else though because I have no life as a result of this chronic fissure. My main concern about the fissurectomy is the recovery time and when I can go back to work. I've been told a wide range of recovery times (recovery to the point of being able to go back to work, not 100% healed)... from 5 days to 4 weeks so I just don't know what to do. I absolutely cannot miss 4 weeks of work, so I'm just trying to see if that's just like an absolute worst case scenario or if that's a legit possibility. If anyone who has had a fissurectomy can please let me know what recovery was like... how soon you were back to work, how long until it healed completely, if it got the job done, etc., I would greatly appreciate it. Right now I am so desperate, I almost want to do it no matter what, but I can't lose my job so I don't know. Thank you.