I am a 66 yr old man diagnosed with anal fissure 3 months ago. The pain is horrific - outside anything in my 66 years experience! 6 weeks ago I had botox injections in the sphincter which my surgeon said would do the trick. Sadly it hasn't. Strangely he says the fissure has healed, and yet the pain is almost as bad as before - for about 6 hours after passing a motion. The surgeon doesn't know what to suggest next but meanwhile has prescribed an anti-convulsant! has anyone else had this problem- I can't face spending the rest of my life in this state.
Hi, my daughter suffered horrendously for about 5 years,form the age of about 12. She had the most excruiating pains,screaming and crying it hurt so much. She had an op to repair the fissure a year ago,after years of lactulose,senokot,anoheal and ligncaine ointment. It still is painful,but not as bad. Unfortunately,it took so long to have the op as she was so young. I empathise with your pain. I watched in horror as she walked the floorboards all hours of the night,and ruuning a warm bath at 3am just to get some relief. We had an excellent lady surgeon who would give is an appointment tomorrow if things got to bad...good luck. Try anything and everything-even homeopathy and reiki
You're lucky if you can get your GP to prescribe a botox injection - all I get from my GP is blank looks of incomprehension - he hasn't actually accused me of making the symptoms up, but his inactivity couldn't be any more marked if he thought I was. I did get to see a colorectal surgeon who said that he couldn't see any problem and that in his experience people with symptoms like these tended to get better the day after he told them it wasn't anything serious. Needless to say I didn't get any better and am still suffering. What the stories on this page demonstrate is the sorry state of the medical profession in this country - and that goes for the private as well as the public sector. Sadly it's nothing new - 25 years ago I was diagnosed as suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy - and was placed on medication (which made the condition worse) for a year. Ultimately, as a result of my badgering the professionals I got a second opinion. The new specialist discovered that I was suffering from bradychardia and had been misdiagnosed because the cardiologist I had seen originally had failed to carry out the appropriate test. Ten years ago my wife died of inflammatory breast cancer because her GP (by his own admission) had never heard of the disease and diagnosed her as suffering from an allergic rash! I could go on with stories like these and I'm sure other correspondents could as well. The problem is that you have to treat everything your doctor tells you with extreme caution and check it carefully - the price of health is eternal vigilance!!
If websites like this are to have any value, it lies in enabling sufferers to correspond with each other and cross refer their symptoms and solutions.
Im sorry for your pain and distress. I have been diagnosed with 3 anal fissures, that just recently took a turn for the worst. After visiting a series of doctors and being misdiagnosed, I decided to get the botox injections. My doctor also put sutures in the fissures. I had my surgery a little over a month ago and although I am not pain free, the pain has been much easier to handle. My doctor has also prescribed diltiazem 2% cream. Maybe that will work for you. Good luck with your pain.