Done goodbye!
and It took me as little as a week to turn my whole life around.. I feel like God said you have suffered enough.. 4 years of pain and agony and the lis surgery a year ago..all now just a bad memory..
After one mis diagnosis after another.. Not one doctor in 4 years every uttered the word.......
Gluten or wheat allergy or Celliac...
I believe that I may have either celliac or maybe the lesser form of wheat intolerance.
Have not gotten officially tested yet.
Last week I stumbled on it by chance searching for answers on the web for my pain and suffering as
I have been doing (as we all do) for many years.
For me what I believe is that from the intolerance it was causing me to have a magnesium deficiency. My body was not absorbing enough magnesium and so the balance of calcium was higher than the magnesium. Calcium causes the muscles to contract and magnesium causes them to relax. So what I believe happened is that this deficiency due to the gluten intolerance was causing this in my levator ani. Levator ani syndrome is a dysfunction of the muscle tightening into spasm.. This of course happens during and after defication which made the area inflame. This basically felt to me like the fissure pain I had before.. Also doing lots of research about Celliac and one of the many symptoms is constipation which caused the fissure and the cycle of hell.
So after my little self diagnosis I decided I would not eat anything with gluten for a month to give it a try.. That means absolutely NOTHING with gluten... After only three days All of my pain was gone. and after a week I feel like I could ride a bicycle again.. It's basically a miracle..
My life is back...
Please, I urge you to ask your doctor about the possibilty of Gluten intolerance.
I am still in shock about it..
I am so happy to know what it is now...
Never Give up and keep searching for your cure when nobody else understands your pain..
There is hope!
Goodbye painful bathroom visits.
burning after bathroom visits for hours.
anal spasms after bathroom visits.
Bloating and gas that would never end.
embarrassing gas that could kill a block of people.
Wiping gently for hours with baby wipes
sitz baths
being miserable most days and most hours of the day.
Spousal misunderstanding of the condition.
creams and ointments
bad thoughts..
It's all gone...
Goodbye and go back to hell where all that stuff belongs...

Fantastic news!!! Well done you!!! I stopped eating dairy last week to see if that helped but it made it worse! Will try anything to get rid of this nightmare. Gonna google gluten free foods now and will give it a go!!
Thankyou :D
p.s any changes will u post on here? please !

I will let you know if I relapse at all..
I still am going to have to manage the fiber a bit.
Just found out that psyllium husk (metamucil Powder) is gluten free.
If you try it.. remember it has to be zero gluten... not light
gluten but absolutely nothing for 4 weeks..
but check with your doctor first..

thanks for that. I am seeing doc this week anyway so will get some advice. Like you, will try anything once to get out of this miserable existence.. Fingers crossed that your still ok

Tremendous news thanks for sharing ouchtear. Another related discovery I made as I eliminated Gluten was that I have a strong food intolerance to brewers Yeast. Thus even going Gluten free I was hosed with stomuch cramps/needing to run to the loo etc. I've tried to go wheat free too at least until I heal up properly

Can you tell us how much magnesium you take? I've been gluten and dairy free for about 2.5 weeks. I do feel better but I am not completely healed...not even close really. Looking into a second LIS and it's scary!

I have been gluten free for a month and my eczema went away.hopefully it helps my fissure too!do you take magnesium pills?

you take antibiotics then you develop candida then food intolerance then af's...antibiotics should be the last resort
try natural therapies first..antibiotics and predsol/steroids have caused me so much grief.

Hi ,
Glad to know u finally done.
I have been going thru the same problem ; anal pain and burning.
Dr told it is due to too much tight lavator ani musle ( the sling shape muscle).
Do U know how much magnesium u took and what type and for how long ?