Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy surgery after fissure your experiencecs?

[Ras 07]

Has anyone had a chronic fissure that was treated by surgery. Please tell me your experiences (good or bad) after surgery. After the surgery how long did you have unbearable pain.
I need to undergo this surgery as well and your responses will give help me a lot.

[Looking4Info1]

I just saw a video on the Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy and no way was that done to me. That is much more invasive than my experience.

Can someone please tell me what the doctor was sticking in me? Is it routine to do it three times, the third about 5 minutes after the second and very deep?

I'm so very disturbed by this and I've not discussed it with anyone, but I'm beginning to lose my mind about it.

[Lovestohelp]

I think if you have a little incontinence and lose sphincter then he must have performed anal dilation. It may have been by using a device or by hand or a type of dilation called digital dilation. You must search about it. And has your fissure healed?? Its supposed to after dilation.

[Looking4Info1]

Please help! Needing your experience, explanation and information.

About June 2013, eating All-You-Can-Eat BBQ one weekend, then riding the motorcycle all weekend, by Monday I must have been very dehydrated and was the most constipated I've ever been in my entire life. I was at work and I think while trying to pinch it off (the ****), I gave myself a fissure.

After about a month or so of INTENSE, INSANE, CRAZY pain, losing about 60 lbs, I found a rectal doctor. Turned out to be a colorectal surgeon.
Upon examination, I was in pain and the rectum was squeezed very tight. He didn't do anything and diagnosed me with a fissure and prescribed some cream the pharmacy had to mix up that was supposed to relax rectum.

When I examined myself, I could feel what felt like a cut inside my rectum about an inch long. Over time, it started getting much better. I was eating lots of fruits and veggi's only and was able to eat at Thanksgiving 2013.

In January 2014, I checked myself and it felt like a bump where the cut was. I figured scar tissue. By Spring, I checked myself and the bump had become what felt like a hole. This scared me, so I decided to see the colorectal doctor (surgeon) again.

By this time, it had been about 10 months since I last saw him. I wasn't in any pain at this time, though I had been very careful with my diet and poops.

He put me up on the table and stuck something in me. Then stuck something in me a second time. Then I'm laying there waiting and he said "one more" and whatever it was, he about shoved it to my brain! I was thinking WTF, but figured it was part of the examination.

He had told me about surgery the first visit and I was liked "hell no". I was determined to heal myself with proper diet and by the second visit, I had made major progress.

I didn't feel any pain after leaving the dr, but about a month later I started having leaky butt! Farts slip out when I cough or sneeze... nasty liquid seeping out, most often while sleeping.

Did this guy perform surgery on me???? I seem to be having symptoms one may get after having such a surgery. I filled out no forms for surgery. I did not agree to surgery.

The fissure is gone for the most part and my anus seems to be much looser than before. I have raw butthole, and stinky, itchy butt all the freaking time!

I'm so freaked out that this guy performed surgery on me. It is making me crazy... this wouldn't be malpractice, this is flat out assault!

Please read my story and tell me what you think. Would it be possible for this kind of surgery and me not notice anything other than him shoving something to my brain though my butt? I had an anus problem, but whatever he shoved in me that third time was checking my tonsils.

[rajat8763]

i was suffering from chronic anal fissure from last 6 months.it pains a lot..i did all medication but nothing helped.at last i decided to go for surgery.surgery recovery was very quick.i was able to walk next day of surgery with little pain.but after surgery make sure your motion is soft.during motion surgery wound pains a lot for three to four days.hot sis bath helps a lot in healing surgery wound.have soft diet diet rich in fiber.now after 2 weeks of surgery 95 percent of pain is gone just little little itching is there.i hope everything with be fine soon..:)

[AJF78]

I had the surgery 5 days ago is it normal to feel the stitches, like they are sticking out the rectum? And info would be awesome.

[Jodisrecovery]

Hi I had my surgery on 1/30/15 and today is my 7th day into this.  My life revolves around when I have a bm and if I am able to have a clean finish.  I am now taking  Ibuprofen 600 every six hours and percocet only as needed, fiber, stool softners and pleanty of h2o but am wondering if the softeners are making the bm too soft  and thats why I am not able to get the entire bm out. I will think I'm done but will stll have this piercing burn on my rectum due to the residual stool remaining inside and burning the healing wound.  I know this sounds gross but what really helped me was to buy a sitz bath filling it with as hot water as I could bare comfortably and when I felt the urge I would have my bm in the sitz bath, I'm not proud of it and it is embarrasing but I am letting you know if you can stomach the clean up it is a lifesaver when it comes to the pain.  It not only relaxed my butt to be able to release the bm the water also lessened the burn.  I have  cleaning wipes in the restroom for cleaning up the sitz bath between uses.. rinseing it well, it didn't take me long to have a routien down.  I also purchased the summers eve cleansing wipes that I rinse with the hot water to get the fragrance out and use them soaked to clean up, I like them cause they are stronger but you can't flush them.  The part of my recovery that scares me is that I can feel the opening of the wound when I wipe and still have the burn from the discharge.  The nurse said to use desitin between bm's but i haven't bought any yet to see if that helps.  Review of my 1st seven days post surgery....day 1 -slept all day no pain (no bm).  Day 2 -no pain felt great, slept a lot (no bm). Day 3 - pain like I had a migrain in my butt pressure and burning pain level 7-8 took percocet, stool softner (1st bm) wowsers burning burning hard stool from anestisia and percocets pain level 11 what did I get myself into???  Took percocet every 4 hours lots of water,fiber, and took stool softner every 12 hours one at 6am one at 6pm. Slept between eating soup or yougurt with benifiber added, and my bm's  that ended with spasms that made me feel I wasnt finished and forced me to push hard with no results.  (Started using sitz bath) after that wishing i had used it from the 1st bm.  Day 4 -same as day three with food and meds, but stools where not hard they were loose soft stools.  I still felt like I had a migrain in my butt however most of the pain was during a bm and post bm burn due to not being able to have a clean finish.  Continued to use sitz bath and would know if i still had stool  in my system because of the 3 ALARM FIRE going on and when i finally was clean I felt very little pain.  Had little blood and little discharge along with the burn so told myself to call the Nurse in the morning.  Day 5 - called the nurse...she said everything seems normal and to expect pain over these first two weeks.  She also said that our bodies will signal us to go #2 an average of 8 times a day but our brain will tell it not now your busy and for me to try to tell my butt not now to allow a full bm to form so I can go less times and possibly finish during that one time.  started to notice that the pain is all determined by my bm's if I was poop free I was pretty much pain free so I stopped the percocet and started using ibuprofen 600 every 6 hours along with my new best frieds stool softner and fiber.  I only took the percocet once this day during one of my couldn't get it all out episodes which I drink a hot tea or eat a hot cup of soup and walked around the house complaing to my poor husband how miserable I was and after 30-45 minuts with the help of the sitz bath i was able to finish but in between I had the 3 ALARM  FIRE going on.  You know what I noticed that if i straightened my legs out and leaned back a little on the toilet it helped me go.  Silly but it did help me.   Day 6- got bold and went with my husband to walk the dogs  around the lake about 1/2 mile...I made sure to empty myself first.  By the time we were headed to the car I was like c'mon we gotta get home!!!!  The walking made me have to go again and I was not going without me sitz bath and wipes....I managed to hold it till we got home 5 minute drive but told myself not to push it again.   Still had the burn while going and still taking about 30 minutes to recover and still waiting for some relief of the burn wondering why is this taking so long to heal?  Oh, this entire time I forgot to mention that I bought the surgical sponge pads and use them every day changing as needed wich is less frequent as the days go by on day 6 I really only changed it when I used the restroom due to no more blood and very little discharge.  Day 7 - Saturday so I can't call the nurse to ask her about the small open sore still causing so much pain and hoping by Monday I won't have to.  Worrying about going back to work on the 16th and hoping it won't be a huge painful drama when I need to go to the restroom.  Can say I feel better but not out of the woods yet.  Pain free we will be...may the force be with you all :)  God bless and hope this helps someone.

[painfree66]

To arspoetica01,

I just had surgery 4 days ago. I had a couple of bowel movements since then which caused some pain but nothing compared to the pain I had before surgery! I highly recommend the LIS surgery. The risk of incontinence is very low. Find yourself a good colon surgeon.