2.5 Week Progress
So of course the progress is not all linear to 'healed and great', and valuable to document some of the not so good stuff. I'm still doing 10x better than pre-surgery.
So, I've been under a tremendous amount of stress the last 7 days. Back to work, and trying to make up hours, and dealing with a big stressful family issue. This has lead to me taking care of others, and not doing as well of a job taking care of myself (less Sitz baths, less walks, less paying attention to my diet).
So the bad first this time:
* Noticing some tightness and a small bit of struggle and discomfort on BMs (am I getting enough water?) The kind of feeling I would get before a 'fissure broke', if anyone knows what I mean.
* Small bits of blood in the stool, but only on the tip at the end (I guess that is more a positive)
* Leakage - I clean with bidet, some wipes and take a sitz bath. I started putting gauze back in, and noticing a bit of waste on the gauze later on in the day. It's varies in amount...some days better than others. Keeping an eye on and will bring up with CRS
So the good:
* Very little pain... almost always less than 1. But it's still there.... but I didn't expect it all to go away in 20 days.
* Poops continue to be much wider in diameter. This in itself feels like a small miracle.
* I am consistent on the AM BM. Drink of water and I go. Don't even need coffee anymore.
* My diet is better...I am tracking my calories, fiber, protein, etc really well. I'm continuing to lose weight because of this too and in normal BMI ranges. I even had ice cream and pizza yesterday (in moderation), along with veggies for dinner. This went fine. I'm just not overindulging in things like cheese/pizza/dairy.