So Happy asked me if I have Lidocaine and yes, I do, but I'm not sure I have been using it to full advantage. In fact, I have only used it a few times and immediately before a bowel movement. The Dr. sent me home with the prescription for it but I had really used it before.
I am only 5 days out from LIS and skin tag removal so I'm not expecting miracles. That said, when I have a BM I have a fairly intense, deep yet stingy pain that is where I imagine the incision must be (on the opposite side of where my fissure was).
So my CRS still has me using the Nifedipine ointment, which I am just barely inserting in to the "verge"- not sticking my finger in there at all. Hopefully that is right. I'm supposed to use that 3 times a day. So I am a little confused about how the lidocaine is best used. I have a little irritation at the skin tag site if I move around or sit much. The other pain is only when I have a BM. This morning, I fully intended to try and put some of the Lidocaine on before my BM, but it caught me off guard and I ended up not having a chance to put it on. Is the lidocaine something that I should just put on several times a day and over the top of the Nifedipine?
And Happy, I had the urgent type of BM I think you were talking about that caught me off guard. It was not pleasant but I couldn't really rate in my mind if it was better than yesterday or not, since it happened so fast! I am really trying to focus on relaxing today - I don't know if other people have had the one particular day that was more difficult for them, like you Happy. Yesterday was that day for me as I was just so restless and conflicted and being hard on myself and not keeping my expectations in check. And Dawn, I keep forgetting your very good advice of looking at things a week at a time rather than a day at a time! It made sense to me before LIS, but after, I have found myself in this hyperanalysis mode- am I better yet? (Are we there yet?)
I feel like I am being such a baby! I appreciate people putting up with me!
Bambi