Hi guys, 23 year old guy here who’s just looking for some people suffering somewhat similar situation I guess.
I first had problems 3 years ago while doing about 20 hour days at university, The stress ended up with me massively constipated and literally ripping myself a new one. I was diagnosed with haemorrhoids and did have one, but it also seems that I had a fissure as well, Some rectogesic later and all seemed to have been cured.
Unfortunately for the past 3 years any "tricky shit" as it could be called and I can end up with anything from a bright red smear down the toilet to a tiny drop of blood on the toilet paper to just a tinge of pain.
I've been suffering like this on and off for a while, mostly it would flare up once a month or two. The annoying irony is that I'm gay, and now I’m terrified that I'm not going to be able to have any sort of sex life (compounded with my hang-ups i already have I'm becoming more and more depressed).
I'm trying to nip this (naughty naughty) in the bun, I'm currently taking rectogesic 0.4mg 2-3 times a day, downing 3-5 stool softeners a day, drinking an obscene amount of water, eating loads of bran cereal, having only small amounts of wholegrain bread and eating as much fruit as I can. It's been a few days since I saw any blood but it’s impossible to see if it's getting any better at all. Guess my main problem is my stool softeners are also making me need the toilet a lot more than usual, from my normal once per day to about 3-4, while it’s not hard it's really not helping.
I just realy hope I can get past this, I'm just fearfull I'll end up needing surgery...