hi sputnik, my crs told me that i should drink prune juice every day. also take miralax. miralax helps me alot , i cant do the metamucil it does not help me out at all..

is metamucil the same as fybogel? if yes, then jenny is right. Fybogel only bulks up and will stretch the fissure, so it's best to avoid that. Prune juice is gd.

thank you all for replies. i did go this morning but i had to give 2 small pushes. what do you do when it comes to rectum but wouldn't come out, do you give a push or leaveit there. it feels awful to leave it there, and i still have that feeling, so just now i went a little with a tiny push. It seems like its never ending in there. I am getting some prune jiuce tomorrow and hopeit doesn't affect my ibd.

sputnik... gosh, i laughed out LOUD when i saw ur question... the things we ask as a fissure-sufferers are really truly all about stools! That was also one question i kept asking myself not too long ago. DON"T PUSH. If u push, 2 things happen, one is ur fissure may rip apart, and piles will occur. That's what happened to me.... sadly.
So leave it there, walk around, drink warm water, then try again later. That's what i read frm an article too, saying that sometimes the stools just nd to be re-lubricated in there. How it's gonna do that, i have absolutely no idea.
Prune juice is gd, but u nd to start frm a low amt and then gradually increase the amt to ur desired stool state. DO NOT drink in a day, u will have diarrhea. (THAT"S what has happened to me, my fren nv TOLD me about it when she urged me to drink prune juice!!)

Don't forget that it is very important to keep up your water intake. Tea has caffeine which does the opposite of keeping your stool hydrsted and soft. I haven't had coffee, tea or chocolate in months. It's just not worth it to me. I'm sorry for what you are going through. Hope things get better quickly.

Lol, I said the same thing to my wife a few weeks ago. She said "maybe you don't have to go". I said, it's not like I sit down to poop when I need to brush my teeth. The damn thing at the diving board, I just can't get em to jump in the pool. Plus it hurts. She didn't know what to think. I get up walk around and finally was able to go.

you should see my ibd support group we really go into details, so i'm so used to saying anything. all your advice to greatly appreciated. before i read new replies today i did have a bm but i had to push again,not a bad push though. from now on i will leave it until its ready and walk or drink warm water. But that feeling is so awful. I;m going to get prune juice today and i wonder do i still take the daily dose of metamucil or does the juice kickin the same day.

For what it's worth I have found Citrucel to be less bulk-forming but still as effective and tolerable as Metamucil. Metamucil did me more damage by causing the big stools! I did not like Benefiber, it isn't bulk forming but it made me feel like I hadn't had a complete BM, and you DON'T need more of that feeling.

Omg I have to take a little break from reading this board. Everytime I read something funny and I laugh, it puts pressure on the very area I'm trying to keep relaxed enough to heal, especially TonyStone's comments. Also I happened upon the page titled 'You know you have an anal fissure when...' and laughed so much i thought i was going to damage something. I only got to page 2 but at least it was better to be rolling around from laughter than pain!

yes its good to have a good laugh, some things sound so funny. I wonder about sneezing, which i've been doing, i thing i have allergies. Okay yesterday got the prune juice but still havn't taken it yet. Scared but usually when i get angry that's when i have guts to do something. Like with my ibd i didn't eat pizza or anything with tomato sauce because it flared me a bit. I just got mad one day, was having some diareahha and just ate it and nothing happened. I know its not always good to do this.