val wrote:If you can cope with a fissure - you can cope with LIS - easily! I wont say its a walk in the park, its surgery, and no surgery is actually pleasant, but honestly, my only regret is not having done it sooner. I had really bad spasms that left me rolling around the bed in agony for hours on end every day. All because I was afraid of the surgery. But its not that scary at all.
Val, I did the same thing for over two years -- it was Hell going to the toilet, and then the ensuing agony would last for hours. If I went to the bathroom right before bedtime, I would get maybe an hour of sleep that night, if I were lucky. I'd usually spend the night pacing up and down the hall, moaning and whimpering, for hours. My kids probably thought our house was haunted.
I was scared to get the surgery because I had read some horror stories about how you could be rendered incontinent if just the slightest mistake was made, but then I found out that the chances of that happening are very, VERY slim, and that it was well worth the risk to be rid of the pain. Three months ago I had the surgery, and I have not had fissure pain at all since I woke up from the anesthesia, and I have yet to poop my pants.
Best decision I have ever made in my life.