I'm scheduled to have a sphincterotomy in the new year, after suffering for about 7 years with a chronic and debilitating fissure. I often have a lot of pain from just trying to push my massive hemorrhoids back up the pipe after bowel movements (not as bad as fissure pain, but gasp-inducing to a high degree nonetheless). I also have chronic diahhrea, but luckily only pass stool every 3 or 4 days. This stool starts out soft, but formed, and then over a period of 6 or 7 trips to the toilet over a period of about 5 hours, becomes a complete liquid by the end. Only the first "dump" is formed, and the rest would be defined as diahhrea though, until it is like a projectile fluid at the end. I'm wondering if anyone on the forum has had a LIS and also has stage 3 hermorrhoids that have to be pushed back into the rectum? By BM #3 or #4 on a poo day (so strange to be putting all of this in writing!), it becomes very painful to push the roids back in, and I'm wondering how much worse (or not), this might be post-surgery? I would greatly appreciate any experiences that can be shared!