Hey Jr2,
I'm thinking "Doc" seems more appropriate...I just picked up another tip from you that you offered up to someone on another thread...I'm def. gonna try it...the ice first then hot bath....I mean it, you're opinions/advice are NEVER annoying, but certainly welcomed
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As for my set-back, well let's just say, I'm still set-back
! I'm definitiely still in it, and don't really know where I'm at at this point, but I have felt improvement from the time I felt the initial new tear. Also, on the plus side, this time around my spasms are nowhere near the horror I experienced before surgery with my first fissure. Those spasms were equivalent to an ignited blow-torch being shoved up my behind, along with a razor sharp knife and several pieces of broken glass thrown up there for good measure and that pain shot throughout my whole body
No joke, it was sheer torturous hell
This time my spasming is so isolated to my sphincter muscle...it feels like it's clenching like a tight fist, sometimes so tight that it feels like if I sit or bend it's just gonna rip. The upside is, it's not as much painful and it is uncomfortable. And, it's not as constant and persistent as with the first, more sporadic this time....some days not at all, somedays periodically throughout.
So, that's where I'm at...where ever that is....I'll see the doc again in 3 weeks, and hopefully I'll have made a change for the better or worse by then, because I really don't want to be in limbo too much longer. If it worsens, I'm ready to go for broke with another procedure, just not sure which one yet, if I see improvement, I'll continue on with the hope that this time my body will play nice and allow me to heal without further intervention.
Thanks again for all your help and advice Jr2 and I'm always keeping you in my thoughts and prayers!
Angel