OK -heres my background.
I gave birth nearly 5 months ago, and I had a 2nd degree tear(meaning some muscle was torn) and hemmerhoids to beat the band. My tear went all the way back and I think was touching an external hemmerhoid.
Got over that, then I got constipated and wound up with an anal fissure about a month ago. I get constant knotting of the muscle around my anus, and maybe between the vagina and anus. It cleared up on its own after a week or so but then started getting bad again 2 weeks ago so I went to the dr. She said it was an anal fissure and prescribed laxatives (gentle, softening ones-Lax-a day) and lots of water.
I went back to see another dr yesterday and he said it looks like its healing and also gave me nitroglycerin and lidocaine.
But sweet jesus the pain! The muscles in that area are in constant knots. It doesn't seem to hurt more or less when I have a bowel movement, but the constant muscle or perhaps sphincter tightness is killing me. It feels like theres an egg under my skin, right next to my anus. I've been applying heat, taking baths as I can, taking ibuprofin. I started taking robaxacet yesterday in hopes of relaxing the muscle but it only seems to help when its robaxacet (made with ibuprofin) plus another 400mg of ibuprofin.
Help! What else can I do?? Will I ever get better? I've been getting slowly worse with that muscle thing for 2 weeks!