by suzyljank » 28 May 2013, 10:39
Hi, I'm so sorry this happened. It's similar to what happened to me. I had LIS in 2008. It wasn't the miracle it is for some people but it helped a bit. I kept going back to the doctor for check ups and I was still really tight. On one digital exam he tore the fissure again. My CRS tried to tell me at the time that I need further surgery, that this LIS didn't work for me but I didn't want to hear that. I did manage to heal again for a few months and I kept retearing. At first rehealing only took a few weeks and I was back to normal but last year it got really bad. I tore in July and didn't get any relief until January of this year. I knew I needed to go back to the CRS and have that talk about surgery. He explained that I had built up so much scar tissure from a previous surgery and from LIS and the tearing and retearing of my fissure that a digital exam was impossible. I needed to get the scar tissue removed. I had no blood flow in that area, my fissure although large and deep didn't bleed anymore because the rectal spasms cut off the blood flow. So almost 5 weeks ago I went in for an exam under anesthesia and had a bilateral sliding flap anoplasty (basically a double advancement flap). I had run out of choices. I'm still in some pain but I can sit again, finally. I'm still terrified when I have a bm, hope that goes away someday. I still take stool softeners and will for the rest of my life but I can now pass a larger bm. before surgery it was smaller than a string bean, no joke. Talk with your doctor about your options. If I had to do it over again I would have had the surgery sooner because truth be told I didn't really avoid the pain of another surgery I just put it off for 4 years. I hope you heal up really soon and stay healed but if you continue to have problems please talk to your doctor. All the best Suzy