Question about painful anal fissure?
I had an EXTREMELY painful fissure about 2 months ago. I went to the doctor and he described it as an anal fissure with a thrombosed hemorrhoid.
After a week of treatment with nefedepine ointment, hot sitz baths and stool softeners.. I was feeling MUCH better. Within 3 weeks it was no longer a problem.
Well, this time around… I had tried to pass somewhat of a large stool [sorry for the t.m.i] and began to have the symptoms again; the swelling between the anus and the vagina, the pain after a bowel movement and the discomfort. It has lasted almost 2 weeks and is not getting better or worse… it seems like it gets a little better and then is painful again after a BM.
Any insight to what might be going on or what I should do?
Did I tear the fissure again?
Tagged with: anal fissure • anus • bm • bowel movement • hemorrhoid • insight • sitz baths • stool softeners • vagina
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angie (68)
DUDE THATS GROSS…GO SEE YOUR DOCTOR.
MAYBE YOU SHOULD PERMANENTLY BE ON STOOL SOFTENERS…
AND STAY AWAY FROM ALL THAT ANAL SEX
call you doctor and follow their instructions. you could risk and inffection
You probably did tear it again.
I had one of these some years back before I learned how to deal with my IBS and started controlling things with diet.
In the meantime, definitely use the softeners. Drink lots of fluids as well. Sometimes we don’t get enough water.
As for what should you do … Call your family doctor or gasterenterologist. Fissures are prone to becoming chronic. And I do mean chronic. The only way to deal with a lot of them is to have surgery to close them up, after which, for two weeks, you’ll be eating lots of soup and in a little pain, but it’s well worth it.
Everyone that I have known to have a fissure eventually had to have surgery to repair it properly, otherwise, it kept tearing.
For the future, get plenty of fiber in your diet to eliminate hard stools. Stools should nice and soft, and require no pushing from you. Sprinkle a little flaxseed meal on your oatmeal, in cereal or other foods like yogurt in the morning. That will help a lot. Make sure to keep flaxseed in the fridge or it becomes rancid.
Also, the gasteroenterologist might want to do a sigmoidoscopy to take a look-see.
Hope that helps.
You need to take a mirror and check yourself out and see if you can notice anything. Sit down and write down everything you just did here and what you see in the mirror. Then call your doctor and tell everything.
Best of luck to you….