by Deleted User 5 » 18 Mar 2007, 17:01
Noelle,
If you have LIS, then only the burning, in all likelihood, will be a problem after the operation. The pain from the actual "muscle cut" isn't really too bad at all; it's a dull ache for the most part -- whatever they give you for pain will almost certainly ease that a lot!
My worst pain after surgery (other than two occasions when I had the "burn" from having used laxatives) was immediately after waking up from the surgery. It did feel like a cherry bomb had exploded in my butt!! But I had a nurse standing by who gave me a quite powerful opiate-type pain killer that took care of the problem. I was doing crossword puzzles in my hospital bed just an hour or so later.
Never was I in horrendous, breath-yanking, nerve-trembling pain during or after the surgery. But I did have one or two days with the fissure at home, *before* the surgery, where I thought I was just going to lose it!!!!
Keep in mind you'll be free of the spasms IMMEDIATELY after the surgery.
So in many ways, a really bad AF episode can be worse than surgery in some respects (you don't get painkillers and the attention of the hospital staff with a day-to-day AF episode!!)
But I'm not trying to minimize the surgery experience -- complications can and do arise.
Keep on feeling better!
Kim
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