Sorry for long post but felt I had to explain and I have found that people with Crohns especially are very patient and understanding.
I have a complicated problem I hope someone out there can help me with. I have become allergic to most meds, oral and topical over the years and all I can take now for my crohns colitis is Librium and Librax (have not had a bloody flare since 2005).
My problem now is an old internal fissure that comes and goes for years and one I just got. The old one I was on Proctocort until I got allergic to it (was tested for allergy) then Anusol until I became allergic to that and then just Vaseline which actually worked well whenever I needed it. My GI doc retired and I had my last sigmoidoscopy in June where there was no inflammation at all, no fissure, just did have slight prolapse and enlarged papilla. As I am also allergic to rubber (again was allergy tested) so no one else has the old rigid sigmoidoscopy but him and there is rubber in the front and bends of the flex one.
Anyway, 2 months ago my old fissure opened up and I started using the Vaseline which was working but 2 weeks ago after putting in the Vaseline the whole anal area started burning terribly. Thought maybe I had not gotten all the soap off while in the shower and got some in there with the Vaseline. Did not use anything a couple of days and again tried the Vaseline with the same result. I find if I lie down after putting anything in it reaches the fissure better. Allergist said to do a self test on the inside of my elbow for 48 hours as if allergy can not use anything with white petrolatum in it either and sometimes it will not show as the mucous membranes are more sensitive than skin. So no reaction.
Last week I went BM 10 times and wiped with baby wipes and got myself another fissure right at the entrance of the anus and right inside lol.
After the Vaseline episode I have tried compound calcium channel blocker ointment (white petrolatum) BURN, Alba non petrolatum jelly, and the Dermatologist said to try Vaniply ointment which I did last nite. It felt great, no burn, nothing and this morning still no pain, even had a BM without pain so took my shower and inserted the Vaniply ointment, putting a little bit more in than last nite and lay down for a few minutes and then the BURN started again all the way around the anal area. Now I do not know what to do. I can not use nitroglycerine as it has lanolin in it before it is compounded and I am allergic to lanolin (again I was allergy tested).
Please if anyone has any suggestions please help. My new GI doc is disgusted with me because of my allergies and is sending me to a CRS next week. I do not want surgery. I can not even heal up whats in there now and also am allergic to all antibiotics except 2. I had a mastectomy for BC and the oncologist radiologist said my drug allergies stem from my immune system is whacked up because I was one of those experimental kids in the early 1940s when they thought xray and radiation was the "new cure" and I was exposed to it and she said it was unmeasured cobalt back then.
Thank you for any suggestions for what I could put in there to calm it down at least as I hate to think of the CRS looking in there with it so extremely sore.