by owwwwww » 05 Aug 2011, 12:45
Perfect timing on this question for me. Well, not exactly, wish I had thought about it more before Wednesday. I got Botox injections on June 30. The fissure had not healed, but it had stopped hurting. I had bruising and a gigantic hemorrhoid after the Botox, and that hurt, but a different kind of pain than the fissure. I actually had about two weeks of a relatively pain-free butt.
I have Crohn's and have had diarrhea for five months. I wanted to start a new Crohn's medicine, and the only way to do that was to have the colonoscopy to show whether the Crohn's was acting up, or if it was something else. Well, it's evidently something else, because the colon looked okay.
Meanwhile, the fissure has opened up wider. It's bleeding now, where it was not bleeding before. So the Botox will last one or two more months, but i don't know what to do now to get this stupid fissure to heal. I sit here and think, "Why, why, why did I get that stupid colonoscopy?"
Now, I know the fissure did not seem to be healing, even though it didn't hurt, it wasn't closed. I'm wondering if it had to be re-opened so that it would heal properly this time. I don't know, but I'm hoping that is what it is. I am trusting the Lord to heal this, and I think He would have stopped me from having the colonoscopy; he stopped me before when it was not the right time.
But, it sure does hurt. At least I don't have the spasms from the internal sphincter. I would get Botox again. But, it took me two full weeks afterwards to not have a great deal of pain in the bottom. And I was black and blue.
So, my advice is not to have the colonoscopy unless like me, they really need to see what is going on. I don't think there is any way to avoid re-tearing the fissure.
God bless you.