just thought i'd give a review...i'd tried posting before, but somehow i always got logged out before it posted so now i'm going to try to write this quickly...
had lis on may 10...the day of surgery i was in a lot of pain--they only gave me 4 mg of morphine (i had 10 mg after my previous surgery the month before)...as soon as i got to the car i took 5 mg of valium and one of the percocet i got...i took another percocet that night before i went to bed, and yet another the next day...other than that i've only been using ibuprofen...
the first few days i had quite a bit of swelling and i wasn't sure the plug had been expelled so i did go see my regular doc and she said she couldn't see anything (i just didn't want it to be still in there and for me to get an infection)...
i went back to work a little over a week after the surgery--i used a donut for a couple of weeks but don't need it now...i don't even walk funny anymore...
i've only had ONE bm that sort of hurt--and it wasn't hard or huge, just what i remember as being "normal"...i took 2.5 mg of valium, 2 ibuprofen and i was fine...
i stopped taking all my meds a little over a week ago...i'm even just taking colace every other day or every third day--no extra fiber even--although i do keep a supply of fiber one bars handy...i hardly ever need valium (although i'm keeping them for the rare occasions that it hurts)...i haven't needed any pain killers for over a week--not even ibuprofen...i don't need sitz baths...i keep everything clean and i no longer have to be super dainty back there...
i go see my surgeon on monday and hopefully he'll have good news for me re the actual fissure, but right now i feel better than i have in months...
hope other people are able to find their path to butt wellness