This is getting so annoying. I get to the point where I am so close, I feel very little discomfort, don't even think about my butt for hours at a time. I have kept to my regimen of using baby wipes, using the flexible showerhead to clean off after a bm, take at least 2 baths, up to 4 a day depending on how many times I have a bm. I generally have very soft stool, probably too soft. I have IBS so it switches to an occasional hard stool which is what started me on this cycle of pain.
Then this morning I have a bm, and it is fairly soft, but with my IBS I sometimes have to push a bit to get things going, and sure enough, painful spasms for HOURS afterwards. And there isn't blood but a slight pinkish tinge on the wipe that I think means that it isn't torn completely open but has caused some kind of damage.
Is this going to go on and on and on? How does anyone deal with this if they have IBS? There is no rhyme or reason to how many bms, or if they are soft or hard, either.