So I'd welcome you to share your experience/thoughts.
Usually I have really good Bowels but following a bout of food poisoning and multiple trips to the loo, I decided to take some Imodium in order to enable me to go to work....
Great, except! I then didn't have a BM for 48 hours and when I did, it was really hard, really big and really hurt. After that BM I noticed blood on the loo paper and sharp burning pain from my anus, that lasted several hours. I checked downstairs and felt some lumps and a sore area that was not normally there! I've been using some pile suppositories for the last 3 days and whilst these makes it easier to sit down and walk, each time I have a BM even though it's soft, it's like passing glass and I have pain afterwards. I am finding "small" amounts of blood on the loo paper and can even wipe some traces away during the day (not after a BM).
Is this an AF and in your experience, will this heal itself given time? It hurts like hell with a BM.
Cheers
Simon