I posted about a year ago that I discovered a "growth" coming out of my butt, went to the doctor, but she said that she thought it was a hemmorhoid. I started using tinactin and my fissure seemed to heal completely. I have been using it pretty regularyl to keep the fissure at bay and it seemed to work.
Well, in the last couple weeks, right around ovulation in my cycle, my fissure came back. The sentinel tag (I like the word tag better than pile!) is so swollen and irritated right now. The swelling just doesn't seem to go down. I have been taking lots of sitz baths and I have been back to using the tinactin and sometimes I mix A&D ointment and tinactin in the palm of my hand to blend them together and use that. I read some stuff online about clove oil helping fissures, so I bought a bottle of that last night and plan to mix one drop with a little bit of tinactin, but yet I am afraid to use that because they say if you have too strong of a concentration, it can burn your skin. Have any of you tried clove oil? Sometimes I think maybe I should use nothing at all on it right now because it is so irritated, but maybe just continue with the sitz baths.
I am so obsessed with this whole thing right now and I am sure I am making it worse by obsessing. The skin tag is so swollen!! It almost seems like the skin tag swelling is so bad that is preventing the fissure from healing at all.
I don't want to go back to the doctor either, because she didn't even acknowledge that it was a fissure in the first place ... she thinks it is s hemmorhoid. We have a couple of colorectal surgeons in town, but I think I would have to get a referral to go to them, so my doctor would have to actually acknowldege that I have a fissure. Maybe they could give me some nitroglycerin cream.
How about that liquid bandaid stuff. Has anyone thought of or tried to use that on a fissure. Maybe that is too sensitive of an area to use that on, but sometimes I would be willing to try anything!
Any tips from anyone?