I've been lurking here for many months but I'm at that point where I need a bit of support from people who understand.
So I've had tears on a off for several years, and last year I had a bad BM and since then i can't seem to get the fissures healed. I had two fissures, 12oclock and 6oclock. It seemed like whenever one started healing, the other side would re-tear and I would have to start over. After trying the diltiazem for over a month with not much progress, I opted for surgery on Wednesday the 11th.
Day 1: I got home from the hospital around noon and I was in a good deal of pain. I couldn't get comfortable. I was given lortab for pain but it didn't really do much.
Day 2: The pain wasn't quite as bad on day 2 and I stopped with the lortab and just started with Tylenol and Advil. I was told to wait 24 hours to remove the dressing and I did that around noon, and the pain felt a lot better after that. I put some pads to soak up any blood and it was a lot of spotting and streaking during the day.
Day 3: I took a look at the site for the first time and I noticed some stitches at the 3oclock position. I also noticed in the 9oclock position a cut across an external hemmed and it was bleeding. I called the surgeons office and they said he only cut in the 3oclock and that the cut must to have come from the dressing When I removed it and to just soak in the tub. So I went from 12 and 6 to 9 and 3, my luck!
Day 4: Had my first bowel movement in the morning, 72 hours since I took the enema before surgery. It was painful but not any worse than my fissure. I had blood streaks on the stool I was in a good deal of pain afterwards during cleanup in the shower. The rest of the day I had mild pain at the surgical site but Advil took care of it.
Day 5: This was a really good day. Not much pain, took one dose of Advil that morning. Still having Reddish Brown discharge streaks in pad but less then before. Then around 9pm I had a BM that was tough. It took 30 minutes and it was excruciating. It wasn't soft enough and It bleed a lot. I was crying afterwards, from the pain and just depression.
Day 6: I woke up feeling good and did a little work from home. I still had reddish brown discharge. I was having occasional pain from the incision side when sitting upright. I'm not having anymore pain from the other side with the cut hemmie. I felt like walking that afternoon so I just walked around my cul de sac for a few minutes. That night I took my temp and it was a little high. The most it got was 99.3. I woke up in the middle of the night to change shirts because of it.
Day 7: Went into work for about 2 hours and then came back home. Still having the reddish brown discharge as much as the past two days. Had a BM this afternoon, it was a lot softer and not as painful but just as bloody.
I had a temp again tonight and it got up to 100.3. Took some Tylenol and it went down in an hour to 99.0
The combination the night-fever/discharge/blood has me a little worried So I guess I'm going to call my surgeon tomorrow to see what try say. I Know I was long winded but it actually felt good just typing it all up.