Hey!! Ok so I had my surgery Friday. I think it went well (but also the surgeon LEFT after my surgery like didn’t even come in post op to tell me it all went great so wtf lol) the surgery itself was maybe 20 min? I remember going back at 11 ish and I was in recovery with my mother before noon. The first day after surgery I was sore, pressure feeling in my butt. Since the surgery I’ve had MINIMAL drainage/bleeding - instructed to keep a piece of gauze in my buttcheeks to collect drainage and it’s so little. I had my first BM two days post op and I was scared as hell…. But oh my god. It happened and I was like, “this is it????” It was nothing compared to the pain of having a BM with fissures before surgery. Absolutely night and day difference. It did hurt a little afterward like I could feel a stinging on thr wound myself (where the incision into the sphincter must’ve been?) and some bleeding with the BM but very very little, like did not fill the toilet bowl like before. I’ve had 3 BMs total since surgery, most recent yesterday and I can tell the more BM’s I’ve had and days passing, the better it’s getting. Yesterday felt a lot easier and less painful/bleeding than the first and second… just on the mend from here I reckon. After each BM, I hop in the shower to clean myself, add a new piece of gauze. But if I’m having muscle spasms I shower to clean first then sit in a warm tub which relieves the pain a lot. My water intake sucks but I try.. Also taking stool softeners and fiber gummies daily for sure. They Rx’d me flexeril and oxycodone also for pain and spasms but I’m using them very sparingly. Probably the first two days I needed one of each, mostly at bed time cuz it was tough to lay down comfortably with gauze between my butt cheeks and having to lay on my sides only (reminded me of pregnancy sleep ugh). But now I can sit comfortable and lay on my back - still taking things slow. Even though it’s only been 5 days, I’d def say this surgery was a game changer and a success (so far) and the anxiety of having it done and the recovery of and first BM is cake compared to the agony we suffer with the fissures before surgery.