so I've got another minor tear and that made me start to think about their location and how to prevent etc etc

so this new tear is exactly 12 and stings like a wotsit whenever I try to use the shower head on it or any creams so have left alone. all my tears are either exactly on the sphincter or just inside never any higher up. my other chronic tear is 6pm with what feels like scar tissue at 5.

since it's my sphincter that keeps on retearing I'm wondering how to make the skin thicker/stronger??

what are your experiences?

J

If 12:00 is my v then my first fissure (the one that got diagnosed and I'm pretty sure has healed) was at around 7:00 or 8:00 and my new one feels like it's right in the middle at 6:00. Or maybe the first one was larger and weakened the skin around it making it more susceptible to tears. I don't know. All I know it's this one is definitely slightly to the right of the original. I haven't been able to get a good look at it myself. That takes some real acrobatics lol. I figured I'm just susceptible to fissures cuz I hold a lot of tension in those muscles throughout the day. And in the past I used to hold my poop in a lot. (How things change Lol. I'm not above going in a walmart bathroom now if it's all that's available to me!)

Mine feels like 2/3 and is very high in the canal, i sometimes get pain at 10 but no bleeding from there so not sure what it is.

Sorry I'm not sure how to strengthen the external sphincter skin, wish I could help. Can only think of perhaps something topical, but you are already using vit E and taking multi vitamin.

My pain radiates, I cannot tell where it comes from, most times I don't care....I think it comes from up inside, I can't tell after my latest examination which sent me off in a panicked pain response that I am not proud of. All I know is that I have radiating waves of hot, burn, sting, throb, spasm and ache.