I know it's Christmas day. But unfortunately my pain doesn't have a holiday....
I've been struggling with a chronic fissure since March 2016. In around September I was at another appointment at the hospital and they checked the fissure area and told me that the fissure looks healed (new skin has grown over it). So I said I still have pain almost on a daily basis. So they said we can try botox. So we tried botox and I don't think it helped much. So around 2 months later I went to another follow up to the doctor and she checked me through again and I described that it didn't help much.
I explained what type of pain I have and I said that I usually get pain when I'm sitting on certain types of chairs such as an office chair, a car seat or many other types (not all cause me pain). The longer I sit on it the stronger the pain gets. The pain is only on my left side (where the fissure was/is) and the right side of my body is completely unaffected.
The doc said she thinks the pain I have isn't caused by the fissure anymore since it seems to have healed. I somehow agree with her because that pain I get now is kind of different.
Usually when I wake up I'm pain free. The later the day the stronger the pain. Usually caused by sitting.
I also noticed that when I go to the gym and do certain exercises I get a lot of pain a few hours later and the following 2-3 days.
The pain is mostly like a burning pain radiating from the fissure site and spreading around my entire buttons (left side only) going down the thighs.
The doc also said it seems like my mucuosa is inflamed and gave me some supposotiries to first get rid of the inflammation.
In the end she also mentioned that it also seems that I might be "more sensitive to pain" than other people. Which kind of appalled me a bit because the pain really IS very strong at times and I really don't feel like I'm overly sensitive to pain.
So today I'm awake for about 90 minutes and I can already feel the pain crawling up on me again. At the moment I would say it's a level 2 pain on a scale to 10. By tonight it probably climbs up to a level 7-8 pain before I go to bed.
There's days I really just go to bed early just to "end" the pain because when laying in the bed the pain usually decreases quickly.
Anyways, long story short: does anyone have an idea what I have? is this really not the fissure anymore? how can I get this to heal?
It's really terrible since i'm working in an office all day long and we don't have any standing desks there and I'm usually barely able to survive a day after sitting for 8 hours straight trying to find a position that doesn't make my left buttock muscles to explode in pain.
Also I am almost scared to go to the gym because every time I go I feel like the pain level increases by 2-3 levels for the next 2-3 days.
I've tried pain killers already and they only help a little bit...
Have another appointment at the hospital later this week for a follow up check how much the anti-inflamation suppositories had an effect on me. After that I don't know what's going to happen next.
At least it "seems" like the fissure itself is behind me now but that other pain isn't much of a relief to me either...
Happy Holidays....