I posted an intro in the newbies section, but thought I should add my surgery recovery question to this section here. I won't bother you with too much background info...
I had LIS surgery 16 days ago. No fissurectomy or skin tag removal or anything else. My biggest complaint before surgery had been discomfort/pain with sitting. BMs were not nearly so bad as other people described (I know I am lucky about that!) and my doctor said I was an unusual case. She also did say that since I was not typical, she wasn't quite as certain about my prospect of healing after LIS (though she still put it at over 95% chance).
After less than a week I was feeling much better as far as healing from the surgery. Still I stayed off my bum and just lay down or stood or walked. However at around day 12 I had to spend more time sitting than previously (about 4 hours). After that I was feeling every bit as sore as before surgery. Worse, in fact, since now it was not just the fissure site but also the incision area that were bugging me. I'm now freaked out that the surgery has done nothing to heal me (yet). Is it too soon to know? I'm hoping that it is not unexpected for me to still be trying to heal. It just seems like even if it is just starting to heal, I might have felt some improvement, so I am disheartened.
If anyone has any words of wisdom, thanks in advance!