Last June I had surgery to try to fix a fissula by having my sphincter mucles cut so afterwards I had stitches down there. Well after the stitches came out my vaginal skin tore to almost my anus. My surgeron had me put polysporin on it but it never healed. I had another surgery in February where I had my j-pouch removed as well as my anus and my surgeron sewed up that area as well as the skin between there in my vagina. Now the stitches have come out, my vaginal skin still hasn't healed and has torn open again. I go back to see my surgeon the 1st week of May and she told me if it hasn't healed by then than she will send me to a gyno to have him stitch up the area again. I am getting very annoyed as it hasn't healed and I can't have sex with things down there the way they are. Has anyone had anything similar happen to them and any solutions besides more stitches such as creams or something? I dread the thought of having more stitches down there!

Oh man, I had a bartholin cyst removed- not nearly as complicated as you, but still, stitches down there is HORRIBLE. Its funny, because my incision opened up again, too. They used dissolvable stitches and I woke up the next morning after surgery and had a gaping hole in my vagina. Not fun. As for advice for other options, thats something you should talk to your doctor about.

(Ps, you might get more replies by posting this in the womens health forum)

Yeah but the only thing my doctor suggests is sitz baths and they don't work. Actually I had to go to the ER today because this tear in my vagina has spread down to the skin in my butt area that my surgeon sewned together. My butt part had all been healed and now I'm left with a big opening from the bottom of my vagina all down my butt area. I'm so frustrated! Oh and what did they tell me at the ER go home and have some sitz baths! I go see my surgeon on Monday and I am so sick of this I'm really going to let her have it. If she thinks I'm going to walk around with a large open area down there and take sitz baths which don't work to try to fix it, she is crazy!!! Sorry I'm kind of ranting but I'm so extremely frustrated!