First of all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!
Everyone's messages to me today ment so much to me. You guys are truely wonderful friends. I decided to start a new thread about my LIS expirience, so anyone lurking around the board considering LIS can read my entire story. I will also post all my post-op results and appointments here.Last night, I began drinking the magnesium citrate at 5 pm. I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a bowel movement. Needless to say, there was no BM in the evening. I went to bed at 10 pm and woke up at 2 am. I had a dream about my operation. In the dream, I knew everyone in the operating room. My older sister was my anesthesiologist (which is not that weird because that is her job in real life), my husband was the surgeon, and my friends were the scrub techs and OR nurses. The whole dream so vivid and weird. I could not fall back to sleep after the dream and stayed up the rest of the night considering canceling the surgery because I felt great. Finally at 5 am, the mag citrate started working and I went to the bathroom like 5 or 6 times. I did'nt have anything to do all morning and I was done pooping, so I decided I would go to school for my morning lecture to get my mind off the upcomming LIS. I left school at noon.
My husband, son and I got to the hospital around 2 pm. They finally called me from the waiting room at 3 pm. They started the IV and the doctor came and talked to me. He said while he had me there he wanted to do a full inspection of my anus. He was going to "explore" it in his terms (this is what Fissy is having done next week). He said if there was any hemmies, he wanted to remove them. I told him, my butt was his at that point and he should do everything in his power to make me better. I also told him I felt great and I was still having serious doubts. He reminded me that I have been through too much, and I decided in the end to just go through with it.
They brought me into the OR and I saw the stirrups! They totally freaked me out, but before I knew it, I was asleep with general anesthesia. When I woke up, I was in the recovery room. I could feel a sorness on my butt and it was painful to sit directly on my butt. The CRS came and talked to me. He said I am lucky I had LIS because I needed it. He said I should have had it over a year ago. There was alot of scar tissue. He also said my spasms were just horrible. I guess I was spasming all the way up to when he made the cut. I was just one of the lucky ones who seldomly had PAINFUL spasms. He said the only way I could heal is by LIS because of my spasms.
Does anyone remember some of my threads on my blue anal scar/hemmie (I know Lecia does - she held me together while I was a basket case about it :D ). Well, when the doctor did his "exploring" down there, he decided it was another hemmie (I had 2 removed with RBL before this). This hemmie was different as it was actually in my anal canal and he said he zapped it by using something that starts with an "S".
Now if anyone knows what this is, please tell me because I would love to read up on whatever treatment he used on me. I always wondered if this little line was a hemmie - it was real tender and mildly swollen at times. He said I have a plug of gauze in me that will come out with my next BM. Did anyone else have this plug??I am mildly sore now, and I expect to be even sorer tomorrow, as that is how most surgeries go. I actually have to prop my butt up on my left side when sitting because I think my incision is on my right side. Could anyone else tell which side their incision was on? I have no fissure pain at all. All the pain is definatley coming from the incision. It is very distinct. MY CRS gave me some darvocet. I hope it works well because I have never taken it.
I am not looking forward to my morning BM at all. I took 2 stool softeners because I am going to take my pain meds. My CRS wants me to go back to my regular diet ASAP. This will be no big deal because I am very healthy and I basically have a fissure diet anyway - with the occassional veggie pizza and chocolate of corse!
I know I am not incontinent already because I am holding farts in just fine!!!
Also, I looked at the clock and my operation started at 4:30. They were rolling me in the recovery room at 5:30. Does anyone have any ideas why the operation took as long? LIS is supposed to be like 5 minutes!
I hope I am healed. I hope I had my "butt makeover" like Fissy. I really love you guys. I would have never taken this step without your prayers and support. :redlove:
Jen
Wow, thanks God you posted - I was waiting for you whole day here 
!!! I am so glad you are home and safe and that you are now on the road of full recovery 
, buddy, what a relief ! Don't worry about first BM - I braced myself and when it started going out I was in shock how painless it was ! I know it sounds like oxymoron but trust me in this one too- you will be pleasantly surprised - just some muscle pain in your cheek where 
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