After suffering for several years post-childbirth I determined I would get my hemmorhoids banded.
The GS suggested she would do multiple (I thought 3, max) under anesthesia, which I agreed to.
I think I had a botched banding job-- she did 7. I thought I was going to die.
21 days post banding a experienced a horrible bleed that put me in the hospital for 3 days. I literally woke up in the middle of the night with blood- everywhere.... I lost a lot of blood and they cauterized the open area during a sigmoidoscopy.
3 months later I underwent a colonoscopy, in which all was well- just a slight unhealed area likely from the 7 areas that were banded.
For almost one year now I have been dealing with an anal fissure, likely the result of the banding. It has changed it's behaviors over the course of the year. I have seen two CRS- both saying it is just a fissure. It is painful when I have a BM, and usually always bleeds.
Here's what I am concerned with {and a freaked out about}
1) Sometimes the bm is not streaked, when I dab the toilet paper on my anus there's a dot of blood.
2) Sometimes I will get a speck of blood in my underwear hours after a bm
3) Sometimes when I apply the nitro cream, I will get a speck of blood on my rubber glove.
4) My anus will ache for hours, and sometimes intermittently.
My pain is not horrible- but the blood is freaking me out. After the sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, 2 CRS exams-- I should just say it's a fissure and call it a day. But I am a hot mess. Has anyone every experienced the bleeding with the fissures?