Anal Fissure Support Forum

Hello Everyone. 36/F here. On Monday I had a LIS with removal of external sentinel tag and internal "hypertrophied anal papilla." I am on Day 5. Noticed a small increase in bloody discharge on the gauze today. I have had daily BM which are smooth and ...

... a lot since my last visit to the doctor. I wrote a diary about this so I don't want to flood the forum and I'll go straight to the point. Can sentinel piles hurt? Or the scar is hurting? My fissure is closed according to the doc, but I still experience pain when i bm. It's not the paper cut ...

Has anyone been able to try dilation with sentinel piles? I have an anterior and posterior sentinel pile with active fissures, and a skin tag from a past hemorrhoid. I want to try dilation, since some people have had success, but I don't know if I can with the piles in the way.

... dissolves. Does anyone have tips on preventing it from dissolving? I tried eating more fibers to bulk it up, but that didn't help. Ive also had a sentinel pile that formed BEFORE the painful and bloody stool...so my CRS thinks I had a painless fissure for a while. Im just wondering what would ...

For both fissures I had what appeared to be a hard, red hemorrhoid near the fissure. Everything I read on-line said that this was a sentinel pile, but that sentinel piles don’t hurt. That puppy sure did. So my question is: do sentinel piles cause pain? Now that the second fissure is healaing, ...

I've come a long way in healing a deep fissure, going from level 8-10 pain all waking hours of the day about a month ago to level 1-2 discomfort now. I definitely feel the fissure wound itself is closing and healing, but in the past few days the itchiness is through the roof, especially at night bef...

I had my fissure botoxed twice about 2 years ago. Since then it’s about 90% healed and it’s nowhere as near as painful as it was, but today the sentinel pile that is next to it burst and is pretty angry looking. Does anyone know if they’ll remove a sentinel pile on the NHS? It’s obviously going ...

... of medication and surgery. I chose surgery because I don’t want to deal with this pain anymore and got the LIS surgery done and also remove the sentinel pile in the same day. After the local anaesthetic wore off it was EXCRUCIATING. The medication didn’t help at all and I can only sleep for ...

... up that it was not helping. I was given the options of LIS or Botox. Botox wasn’t going to work for me. I knew that. On July 6th I had LIS, some sentinel skin tags removed and a fissurectomy was performed. I was in awe after the surgery. I could not believe the pain was finally gone... and then ...

... perianal abscess and what seems to be a re-opened fissure. My doc said I might have sustained a “slight nick” during the procedure. Anyway, now my sentinel pile is very red and has a tiny bit of broken skin (maybe the aforesaid nick). Anyone else have strange going’s on with their sentinel pile?? ...