by Overit35 » 02 Jul 2017, 10:10
Hi, I am a 35 year old female who got a fissure during my 4th month of pregnancy. I was in debilitating pain for several hours a day and had to take over a month off work then go back only part time until I had the baby. I spent days on end crying, pacing and rocking from the pain. Sometimes I thought I would lose the baby because of the amount of pain my body was in. I went to a colerectol surgeon who wanted to give me Botox while pregnant but I did not want to risk harm to the baby so I declined. I tried every natural remedy under the sun with no success. Special diets, coconut oil, aloe vera, wheat germ oil, olive oil, apple cider vinegar with no positive results. I gave in and started using nifedipine ointment twice a day while pregnant. Overtime, it seemed liked it started to help but as my due date approached I had so much anxiety about having a natural birth due to the anal fissure. Long story short, I had a c section for reasons other than the fissure. The entire labor experience was NOTHING compared to the pain I had been having from th fissure. My son was born healthy on 3/27/17 and the first few weeks after he was born my fissure pain was minimal and I thought was healing. It was too good to be true because it came back with a vengeance so bad that I had to have someone with me at all times because I could not hold my baby. It was miserable. I went to see my CRS and he scheduled Botox 5/18. They used anesthesia and I was discharged from the hospital an hour after the procedure. I felt really good but had an hour and 20 min ride home and started to feel it towards the end. They had given me a Percocet for the ride home but was advised to use over the counter Meds to manage pain at home so I would not get constipated. After being home for about an hour I started having such an intense throbbing that I started to cry. It was a different kind of pain than the fissure and Tylenol was not touching it. I had a glass of wine at the suggestion of my mother and was able to fall asleep. I was terrified for the first BM but surprisingly was not so bad. The next day the throbbing pain was gone. I was still on maternity leave so I didn't have to worry about work. I had some good days and some bad days but after 5 weeks I realized that it was not healed enough for me to go back to my normal activities so At the follow up my CRS suggested LIS surgery. I went to the hospital 6/30/17 and was put under. I was able to have a fast track recovery and was only there for about 35 mins after the procedure. My surgery was on Friday and I told my CRS I am supposed to return to work Thursday from maternity leave and he said that I should be able to return then. I was given one Percocet for the ride home and told to alternate Tylenol and ibuprofen and to take 2 sits bathser day. I kept waiting for the pain to come on Friday but felt pretty good all day. On Saturday morning I woke up feeling not so good. I had a sore and stinging sensation. I started to have the urge to have a BM and was panicking. I'm not going to lie, the first BM was ROUGH. I used the shower nozzle to clean and sat in the tub. I took 800 mg of ibuprofen and was able to lay down which is weird b/c with my fissure I could not lie down after a BM for hours. As long as I'm laying down the pain is minimal but when I get up and walk there is an intense burning. It is now Sunday and pain level is the same. As long as I'm laying I feel comfortable but have not had my second BM yet and not looking forward to it. I'm praying that this worked because this has been the hardest 8 months of my life and all I want is to enjoy my baby and be able to take care of him without the pain. I'm also praying for a miracle that I will be able to return to work on Thursday but right now that's hard to imagine because I have an hour commute each way. Thanks for listening and good luck to all!