Please help ME!!

[nh_user_17608]

Hi All

been looking on the internet as ive been coping with a fissure for a year now.

i got it around september last year, pretty sure it was due to a really meaty and oily meal.

it was painful but bareable. i had months were it was okay after i sought out help. first i was given a stool softener and some steriod cream and i had a pain free two weeks, but it obviously hadnt healed cause a few day later it was back with avengance....

i then tried a high fibre diet eating two apples and two bananas religiously everyday... but if i missed this due to running out it would hurt and almost reverse any healing progress..

so last week i went to the docs, he gave me some retrogesic, and fybogel and im taken lactualose on my on accord. i was getting killer headaches with no/little pain relief from the fissure.

i went back again and told him this so he had another look, it appears i have two fissures, and a skin tag. which is basically where the fissure has healed out of the anus. when i spoke to him i did say i never get anypain at the front just the back and it all seems to stem from this skin tag like thing, cause you can tell the difference between the internal soreness and the external..... but if i heal the fissures everything should be okay

so now im back on the first steroid cream i used, and sepocitries, which are bigger than bullets and not pleasant to put it and can fell abit sharp...

Im really trying to avoid surgery. and am going to take on this person plan of action for a few weeks.. http://experience.patient.co.uk/discussion.php?p=63729&highlight=anal+fissure#63729

ive started doing as best i can and ive not got and spots of blood anymore.

does that mean its getting better even though it stil hurts to pass?

im using schroprioct or something

im only 19 and want a military career. surgery is really not an option. im not private so i cant afford it. also is botox on the NHS

Am i behond the point of return?

Thanks

[nh_user_19088]

I too have a fissure and at times it hurts loads. I have found the botox has reduced teh pain and you don't always have to have a general anaesthetic to have it done. The only downside it that I sometimes get a tiny bit of leakage. But on balance, I'd say that the leakage is less awful than the pain.

[nh_user_22654]

I have been diagnosed with anal fissure and i was prescribed anoheal cream ,have been using it for a week to no effect .I am beginning to doubt anal fissure is my problem ,i was giving injections for hemmeroids which failed to work .Is the feeling of soreness and swelling between the legs in the groin area normal for anal fissure ???.Grateful for any replies

anto

[nh_user_225]

Hello there! I had anal fissure too and was cured by taking slippery elm bark powder. The way to take it is: mix 1 tbsp of powder with a bit of water and then fill up the glass. Drink it immediately. Have it 3 times a day: 1st before breakfast, 2nd before lunch, 3rd before going to bed. I was cured in 1 week. I suggest you take it for a month to be on the safe side. It doesn't taste good, but it's a wonderful herb. All the best.

[nh_user_885]

hello to you all

i had an anal fissure 4 years back after i gave birth to my daughter.I can describe this as the worse pain ever. It's more painful than labor pain and it really put a strain on me. as i was unable and afraid to eat as it was so much pain to go to the toilet. I battle with cream and anusol for about 6 months and things get worse on new years day 2010 that my husband took me to hospital as i was so much suffering the pain was so intense and it was making my blood pressure go up and down.I was offered surgery and did not think twice and sign the paper in a rush because i was in so much pain.Let me reassure you all that it was a decision that was well taken because since that day I am free from pain and enjoying going to the toilet like i was before. I still include fruits and veg in my diet. For me surgery work , may be you should go for it.

so all the best to you all.

elles