Hi all. I had a baby 9 and half weeks ago. Had a forceps delivery with an episiotomy and third degree tear. Was told at my 6 week check up that it all seemed to be healing ok and I did feel slightly better.
However 7 weeks PP I shuffled slightly on the sofa and felt a stabbing pain inside my vagina on the side of my tear, went to the GP and she said there is a half cm fissure in there adjacent to my main tear scar.
GP wasn’t sympathetic or helpful at all, said they wouldn’t restitch and told me to just up pain relief and wait for my appointment at the perennial clinic which is in two weeks.
All the rest still feels better (though it does still hurt a bit) but that fissure in particular still hurts like hell two and a half weeks later and I’m not sure it’s getting any better - I keep ‘catching it’ like I’ve re-pulled it open no matter how careful I am.
I can’t see what it looks like as it’s inside. I didn’t bleed when it happened, though if I did now I wouldn’t notice as I got my period a couple of days ago.
Has anyone experienced something like this? Did it heal on its own? If they don’t want to restitch is there something else they can do to help it heal?
It’s really affecting my life and mental health, feel like I’ve been in pain for two months and struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I tried to go out in the car locally the other day and the fissure was really quite painful, I basically haven’t left the house in two months :(
Thanks all.