How do you know where one ends and the other begins?
On 7th Sept, the CRs declared me healed of AF (I'm not convinced), he said I have a couple of internal hemmys which should sort themselves out soon now, but if i have any pain to go back to the GP. So on his advice, I stopped dilt and movicol straight away, and started on the daily fybogel.
Obviously since having an AF I'm very conscious of everything that happens down there, and the first couple of BMs without dilt were uncomfortable. But a couple of times, that discomfort has been accompanied by an acute pain, but very brief, and disappears once the BM has passed. I've almost got to the point where I've wanted to bite on a towel (like in the bad old days) and do breathe an audible sigh of relief once it has passed. A few times I've had spotting of blood on the toilet paper too, though the past couple of days that has stopped. It is still intensely uncomfortable to have a BM, but I don't know whether my AF hasn't healed, or if it's the hemmies that are causing the pain/blood? And even when I don't have blood, I don't know whether it is 'just' bad discomfort, or if it is a pain worth going to the GP about?
(Not only do I have little faith in the GPs, it takes approx 3 weeks for me to get an appointment anyway, unless I say it's an emergency. If I knew it was definite pain, or if I was spasming again, I would say it was an emergency no hesitation, but I'm in an inbetweeny stage atm.)