anal fissures
#293322 - 12/12/06 01:33 PM
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I would say it's at least been 3 months now... an average constipation episode resulted in my first ever (known) anal fissure. It is EXTREMELY painful. I received some prescription ointment to put on the fissure in Novemeber, which might heal it for a few days and then there I go, tearing again. :-/ I believe I have a fairly high pain tolerance and sometimes this is so painful that it makes me not want to go to the bathroom.
Has anyone else suffered from this? If so, how long did it take to go away or at least for the pain to end? Did it result in surgery? I have read that sometimes you have to go the surgery route. I admit, at 25 I don't feel up to having surgery on my anus... at any age for that matter! 
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I recently just got over an allergic reaction to this supplement, because I got an itchy rash all over my body and my *trying not to get too informative* butt hole swelled up and got unbelievably itchy. I actually used Desitin and it helps so much! It's worth giving it a try, because it's very soothing.
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Tierney
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i was taking nystatin for yeast in my esophagus and started having anal itching.(yeast overgrowth, reaction to killing of yeast?)anyways, I used a preperation H but will try desitin if it happens again. anyone else get this itching? any info on yeast overgrowth?
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Try doing a search for 'fissures' with no time limit, on all boards, you'll come up with a few posts.
Here's one: fissures
Hope you feel better soon,
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Kat
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Hi, TJ, I've been dealing with fissures for a while now.
What I call the "acute" ones are the ones that feel like a razor blade is cutting you--with that kind, stool softeners and numbing medication is about all you can do, and hope it heals up.
Right now, I have a "chronic" fissure, have had it for over a year. I never had the "razor blade" pain with this one, it was different. While going to the bathroom doesn't hurt, I develop a terrible ache 20-60 minutes afterward. I think it's the muscle spasming. Immodium helps the ache sometimes; tylenol or ibuprofen always ease the pain.
I had a visit with a colorectal specialist about this several months ago. He suggested surgery, but I didn't want to do that until trying a nonsurgical approach. He gave me some diltiazem ointment to apply topically, to help get the blood flowing to the fissure site to promote healing. Dr. said that the longer you have these, the harder they are to cure without surgery.
I learned there are two things they hope to accomplish with the surgery: cut out the fissured tissue itself so the fissure can heal cleanly, and/or they cut the rectal sphincter to ease or eliminate the spasming.
HTH! 
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