Hi fellow sufferers
I am having my LIS on Monday... I am super nervous (generally pretty nervous about stuff like this), but it's become a necessity. My pain has been out of control this week, and I've been dealing with this for 10+ years.
A few questions for folks that went through this:
1) How soon afterwards can you/did you take your first Sitz bath. I find them to be one of the only things that helps with the fissure pain at the moment. As I understand there will be some packing, can you take a bath with packing in?
2) Along those lines, does the packing come out when you have your first BM, or do you end up pulling it out?
3) Were folks in 'active fissure pain' when they had the procedure? I keep seeing people saying 'the LIS hurts less than my fissure', and hoping that is how it goes for me, but were you actively in a lot of pain right before the procedure?
4) How soon back to exercising? Planning on just walking as soon as I feel up to it. Would like to get back to running, lifting, and maybe biking.... hoping on 4-6 weeks, but I know it depends on how recovery goes.