by Mercury » 04 Jul 2013, 17:36
Ok then, I had my LIS today. It was around 9am, it's currently 2am the following night and so far it hasn't been half as bad s I thought it would be. The fissure pain was much worst than what I had experienced in the last 15 hours and I can only hope it continues like this.
I was under general anesthesia so there was no local sedation when I woke up. It hurt but really I would rank it a 5 or 6 tops, then as I was in recovery they asked if I was in pain, I said yes and they gave me 6MG of Morphine. Honestly? I have no idea what happened the following 4-5 hours, I was completely sleepy, falling in and out of sleep. Then when I finally woke up they said everything went just fine, the CRS said that with my fissure I never had a chance without a LIS and that he had to stitch me up a bit but these are the kinds of stitches that just fade after a while so nothing has to go in there again.
When I got home around 5pm I started having some worse pain, still nothing I can't handle. I took a Percocet which I was prescribed and the pain completely vanished, I was pain free for about 5 hours, then the pain came back (again, nothing too bad) only because I think they tubed me when I was under and now my throat really hurts which means I cough all the time and coughing makes my sphincter spasm.
Also, they left a piece of gauze in there and about 3 hours ago I felt like I have a BM, went to the bathroom and all that came out is this piece of blood soaked gauze, it wasn't completely drenched in blood but once it came out it also lowered the pain even more, and it seems all I needed to pass was the gauze, there was no real BM since the LIS yet.
All in all, I have to say this day isn't as bad as I thought it would be, not even half as bad. I'm still very dreading the first BM but I still hope it comes tomorrow cause I want it to be as soft as the ones before the surgery.
So, lots of water all the time, I took my Movicol today and had a very fibre rich dinner.
I'm now very positive in believing this keeps being so easy, I know the first BM is coming and I have no idea how bad it'll be but considering how I feel now I don't think it'll be THAT bad, I've barely bled (only a couple of drops) since I got out of the hospital (I'm using my GF's Always Ultra to keep the bleeding from killing my underwear) and also Percocet really does help a lot.
Here's hoping tomorrow goes even better than today!