SSK wrote:Hi fissuremaster,
I was wondering what your recovery felt like in those 10 months after Surgery?
I read that you were still having pain but did the severity decrease? Did you slowly start having
Fewer bad days and more good days?
I am very frustrated because I have some good days and then bam suddenly some awfully painful days.
I can't correlate it to my diet so I feel so angry that even after fighting so hard, I seem to be losing this battle.
Any experience you could share would be great. Thanks.
Yeah for the most part I always had a degree of burning and tightness for about 10 months after surgery. For the first couple of weeks it more pain from the LIS wound, but then that healed and the classic fissure pain slowly crept back but it sort of plateaued after a couple of months and I was just left with moderate burning discomfort after bowel movements.
But as you stated, I slowly started noticing a good day here and there. Then 2 good days in a row. Then 3. Then sometimes reset back to having more bad days than good, but eventually they all became good days.
I don't feel like I ever had a big re-tear. It felt like it was just getting 'irritated' somehow on BMs. I felt there was a correlation between the size of the BM and the irritation. When I mean size, I mean if I had a BM that produced a large quantity it would tend to aggravate it more than if it was a smaller bm, even if the smaller BM produced just one larger/harder 'section'. Gory details. Just if it was a lot then I knew it would irritate it a bit more.
How many bms are you having a day? Do you ever hold it in? Are they loose at all? I found those to be as bad as hard ones. Are you applying any medication down there? Maybe lay off for a couple weeks. Still doing sitz baths? I did them pretty much after every BM I could for the 10 months. Sounds ridiculous. It was.