After suffering dreadfully since March with GI problems of various sorts, I started trying to get an appt with the last Gastro Ent I had seen. They were booking 8 weeks out, and after rescheduling twice I gave up on him. I decided to go to another guy who is a colon/rectal surgeon, since I knew I would probably need surgery for hemorrhoids anyway.

He listened to the whole sad tale, and checked me out. He found two fissures, several hemorrhoids, and levator spasm which is probably the root cause of both. I won't go into detail - if you've had any experience with it you know what I'm talking about, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, I hope you never have to!

My question to you here is: the dr is extremely reluctant to do a sphincterotomy to fix the levator spasm because of my MS. He's afraid it will cause incontinence down the road. But if the spasm isn't corrected, even if he fixes the fissures and hemorrhoids they may recur. He wants to try me on muscle relaxers. Anyone have any knowledge about this? I don't want to have what sounds like a very painful surgery, and it be all for nought.