I enjoy reading the forums but rarely post. After speaking with Dawn, I decided to post my LIS surgery experience so far.
Dawn and I had LIS performed by the same surgeon down in Ft Myers Florida. Dawn recommended her and I had a visit with the Dr and decided she was the right fit. I was a little worried at first about Dawn's somewhat leakage story 8 months post op but this Dr was better than the one’s I saw up in Tampa.
I had LIS on 11/11/11, what a date to remember. :-) Anyway, the Dr said my fissure was very deep and long, like a pig feeding trough. I had the fissure about year and half and fought it with every cream known to man and every diet. My final cream retrogestic and it did help a lot with the pain but never healed the fissure, so I had LIS done.
The reason I waited so long was because of the 5% incontinence rate and I am a fighter who never gives up on anything, unless I know it’s a lost cause but still even then. Anyway, I had to try everything but Botox to satisfy myself that if I was one of the 5%, I would have no regrets.
Surgery was at 9 am as before mentioned on 11/11/11. I was not nervous and was ready to go. Was out of the hospital within 1.5 hours and headed home, no pain, felt good. They gave me one Vicodin at the hospital.
That Friday, I took 1 more Vicodin 6 hours later and one before bed. I took a total of 2 Vicodin. On Saturday, I took 1000 mg of Tylenol, in the morning and afternoon and stopped all pain meds after that. I read multiple times about people on Miralax etc to get a BM and were afraid of the first BM etc.
My plan was this, once I got home on Friday, I would loaded up the fiber and try to stop all pain meds as soon as possible. That Friday, took in roughly 400% of the daily fiber intake in order to cause a BM. My schedule usually is once in the morning and once between 3 to 5 pm. Saturday morning, per usual body schedule, I woke up and had my first BM , no pain, nothing. I had some blood spotting but nothing to freak me out about. I did have loose stools Saturday x3 and partly Sunday x3 but now they are yellow blobs put together. Its odd that my BM are all yellow but I called Monday and they said that is normal. I am doing 1 tablespoon of Metamucil, started that on Monday as the Dr said I should just to bulk up my stool for a few days and then stop even though my BM are going fine.
Long story short, I am currently on day 5 post op, as I completed day 4 this morning at 9 am, (how I count recovery hours). I’ve been able to “hold my BM in” say I have the urge to go to test if I was able to on multiple tries and I have been able. I am a high strung person, so learning to relax has been hard the past few days but I’ve been watching a ton of Modern Family and etc.
Overall, the pain is gone, a tad bit of itching for maybe 10 minutes total in a day but I just bare through it. My BM area does growl during the day as if I need to go but I just let it pass me by and keep on moving. No leakage as of yet as I do checks after a BM and before a BM. I am doing the sitz bath x3 a day, even if no BM at lunch, just to follow the schedule given. I cannot sit in the recliner as I’ve learned that at least in my case, I clinch when I try to get out of it, so that’s over for now. I do lay on my side and am taking it easy. I have not yet taken Miralax nor do I plan on doing it. I feel fortunate that this surgery went so well so far at least. Fingers cross it stays this way. I do have a post op visit on Dec 5th with the Dr to check the status. Hoping no infection occurs and I heal up well.
I would recommend getting the LIS done if you have a choice.
Questions, feel free to ask.
My husband swears if I wiped like a normal person instead of using the shower wand and dabbing that it wouldn't be dirty when I checked again. I'm not sure because I'll probably never wipe like I did before this all started! 
Hopefully over time, this will subside!.