by Guest » 02 Apr 2013, 13:12
octobahn
We hope you will not have to give up your bike for too long.
So in your case from what I hear the wound is worse than many a fissure, and the heal times will thus take longer.
I have never had a fistula or any surgery done, I'd just had bad recurring fissures and I'd use the creams and diets to try and heal up.
With your surgery though it just a guessing game for me so I will politely bite my tongue here as to the heal times.
Sounds like the Seton device will be good for you to help the drainage.
But supposing if your surgery was quite minor down to the level of a "regular" fissure, I reiterate........
The tricky thing about fissures is to keep them away once they have healed.
Everybody is different, but for me my AFs were very recurring for several years. Once I had one, getting rid of it to the point of zero discomfort took me anywhere from a little over a week to around a month due to re-tearing.
Re-tears were the coup de grace for me as well as others here, so trying to keep the stools soft is now your challenge.
You may be fine, with zero discomfort for several days and weeks and months, but then a couple of hard BMs can lead to yet another AF.
This is the "cycle" (pun just thought of and yeah, intended) that plagues many if not most of us in here.
Thankfully though, I have seemed to be able to beat my
recurring AFs through diet alone and I have not had an AF for quite a while.
We hope your sub' visits will work out for you.
Two weeks to a month that your doctor mention, is indeed like I stated, is about the time it would take for my fissures to completely heal.
Provided that there are no hard bm's or bouts of diarrhea or perhaps in your case drainage problems.
Are prayers are for your complete speedy recovery.
HTH & GL
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