My name is Katie. I'm 20 years old and I live in Maryland. And this icon is hilarious.
I think I'm experiencing my first fissure ever. I feel so abnormal and embarrassed. I live with my boyfriend, luckily I was able to... uh... share what I'm going through. I hope he doesn't mind too much, haha.
My fissure has been going on for a long time, only that I had no idea it was a fissure until I decided to go to the doctor after my pain got worse. I actually just went to the doctor last night. She said she didn't want to "poke around too much", gave me a really expensive steroid that I haven't been able to fill yet, and referred me to a GI. When I got home, I was able to find the problem myself. Yep, looks like a fissure. Its pretty, uh, close in regards to where it is. I'm not quite sure what to do in order to make it go away home remedy wise. I bought generic drug store stool softeners and I'm not sure if it did anything cause my bowl movement still felt like it was ripping me a new one, hahaha.
I was thinking about going to bed and try olive oil AND mineral oil. I also bought Fiber vitamins since I'm on a terrible college kid diet, and it might be hard to get enough fiber in my system. I'm just afraid of taking a crap, to be honest. It hurt so much tonight. I'm just scared that if I keep going to the bathroom, it'll just get worse. I know I can't hold it in, but I don't know what to do. And I'm SCARED CRAPLESS of surgery! Also, hoping that I'm too young to start something like that...
Anyway, I'm happy I found this forum. I never thought such a thing would exist. I hope people are still active and able to lend a hand.