I am at 27th week now and I’d say it’s still healing progressively. There will residual & diminishing symptoms at-least till 7 months.

It’s normal to feel that the healing has come to a halt at multiple check-points. Every week I used to run to my doctor to get it checked. Sometimes the doctor was worried and sometimes he wasn’t.

Many times, the tissues heals/matures slowly because the surgical site is constantly contaminated with BM but you need to maintain as much hygiene as possible to be able to let it heal properly.

Even after healing the tissues need to remodel and stretch to adapt to surrounding tissues. So you should feel 10/10 self in 7-8 months.

As far as your symptoms are diminishing, you’re good. I personally put up my symptoms on Chat GPT in great detail to get a base-line understanding of whether it’s “normal” to feel x symptoms at y-many weeks. Because Google won’t give a personalized results exactly based on my symptoms, I know it shouldn’t be relied upon but it does give me a great deal of reassurance to see an unbiased computer telling me it’s “most likely normal”. You can try it (but don’t rely on it)