by NeuropathicGuy » 17 Jun 2011, 21:09
Hrm I had all kinds of weird feelings in my butt for months after LIS. I think it may be too early to tell at this point. The party in my butt rocked on pretty good for the first few months, and started to die down some after maybe half a year or so? (Real rough timeline since my memory of the whole thing is fuzzy now.) I don't think it was "last call" until even a couple of months after that.
I have some chronic nerve issues elsewhere in my body and they don't usually cause pressure feelings though. My nerve pain/discomfort is almost always sharp or tingly and electric-like in nature.
If I had to guess, I'd say maybe it's one of the following suspects, listed in order of likelihood (IMO only of course):
1. Expected weirdness during LIS recovery. Perhaps the other muscles in the rectum (for example levator muscles) are changing their contraction patterns to compensate for the looser sphincter.
2. Scar tissue, or healing that isn't yet fully complete.
3. Nerve damage ... I would put this one at a pretty distant 3rd place myself, though, as my experience has been that nerve problems don't depend much on physical activity, whereas muscle discomfort does.
My butt still doesn't really feel the way I seem to remember it way back in the good ol' days. So either my memory is wrong, or something has changed since the pre-fissure days, but is relatively subtle hence why I can't quite put my finger on it.