Hello All,
Been browsing this great and wonderful site again, searching for new info now that I am scheduled to have LIS/Fissurectomy in a few weeks.
I had been hoping to avoid the fissurectomy part of the equation, but the CRS said that she thought it was important to remove the ragged edges of the fissure to create a "cleaner" edge for healing purposes. Ok...this does make some sense. But then she threw in that she would then send the tissue she removed in "to be examined".
"Examined for what?"
"Well, just to be certain that it is not connected to some other sort of lesion."
"Like....?"
"A polyp, or possibly cancerous cells. It is not common, but it is better to be sure," etc, etc.
Yikes! Of course this whole painful adventure and the constant battles with constipation have occasionally had me thinking along the lines of more serious illnesses (especially every few nights right around 4:20 am...) but it is the first time that a doc has mentioned it. I had a colonoscopy that was clear 2 yrs ago. But now every time I have a spasm that reaches deep up to my tailbone, or I sit and it feels like I am sitting with a burning hot golf ball inside me on the side with the fissure, I get that dreaded cold feeling in the pit of my stomach...
I have been so happy since I knew that I was finally going to get surgery and get some relief! Sort of like, "Soon my life can go back to normal and I can be HAPPY!". Now I'm afraid they are going to find something worse. I have yet to come across other posts where fissures were ultimately connected to rectal (or other) cancer, but perhaps I haven't dug far enough? Anyone else's doctor mention post fissurectomy biopsy?
Thanks to any and all forthcoming responses!
Mlle Buttcrack (who is a Californian living in France, wishing that she could have the comfort of being in her native land for this ordeal, whilst still having the French Social Security continue to help out with all the bills!)