Hi everyone, for the last couple of months I have been having awful trouble going to the toilet. I have suffered slightly with hemerrhoids since having my daughter 5 years ago, but they were never a big deal, but some time in the last couple of months I must have got an anal fissure and it has been like torture going to the toilet.
I stupidly sometimes had the habit of holding it in when I needed a bm, but then I almost had to start holding it in as I could hardly face going to the toilet and I also tried to wait for the house to be empty as the smell was so bad (from holding it in)
I was also pretty noisy as sometimes I was trying to do breathing excercises like I was giving birth to try and help me go and I didnt want people to hear me.
I decided to try and cure myself and drinking lots of orange juice helped for a while, drinking lots of water didnt help, vaselining my behind helped a little, but not really a long term solution.
I bought some healing suppositories but they were very uncomfortable and actually seemed to make me lose control of my bowels.
I am now relying on dulcoease stool softeners and I would say they have taken about 70-80% of the initial pain away in pooing (that glassy, cutting feeling) but since taking them I have very painful hemerrhoids after pooing.
This is weird because I wasnt getting them before when I was pooing enormous hard glass shard bm's.
I have ordered Preparation H to stop the hemerrhoid pain and hopefully that will really help. I am also trying to drink prune juice because the one day I didnt poo while using the dulcoease seemed to set me back in terms of the anal fissure. I feel I am on the right track and I have also stopped holding it in where possible which is maybe the most important thing. Any advice would be appreciated