Hey everyone!
Not long discovered this forum, had no idea there was one for anal fissures but there seems to be a forum for everything these days :)
I'm a 24 year old guy and ive had pain with my poop for 18 months, blood on the toilet paper at least once a week.
I recently went to the docs and he performed an exam, he concluded there were no hemmies up there and nothing more sinister. So I suggest a fissure, and he says it could well be that there are reoccurring fissures there.
My symptoms are as follows:
There is always some sharp pain with a poo, there isn't always blood but if its a bigger poo then usually a bit.
Once im done, I usually have to have a warm bath and two ibuprofen to dissipate the pain. After the bath I usually just sit on the couch until the pain is gone.
I always poo around 7pm, and the pain is usually gone by the time I go to bed if I do those things.
For about 3 hours after a poo I have to periodically wipe my bum of puss/mucous? Usually it stops after that.
As I said the doc didn't seem very concerned about it, he gave me some suppositories with hydrocortisone in them which im yet to try. I hate using suppositories as I struggle to keep them in, I would rather an ointment or something.
Last year there were a few nights where I couldn't sleep for the pain, im assuming its around the time the fissure first appeared.
I have started eating fruit and veg and drinking loads of water as this is the obvious first step.
The last 18 months I haven't been myself at all, its been dictating my moods and my decisions to do take part in things. I know you must have heard all this before I just felt like I had to voice it somewhere somehow.
Thanks for reading, if I have any progress in healing I will be sure to make it known on here.
Also any advice/tips is very very much appreciated!
Dave :)