Hi there!
I have officially finished reading ALL of the success stories on this forum and it is helped me SO much! Thanks so much for whoever decided to organise that thread! So I have had my fissure for 4 months now! I was in France for work, ate way too much cheese and voila! My fissure journey began. I am 31, female, from Australia but living in Spain.
My progress has gone something like this:
1st month- intense pain with BMs but afterwards could go on living as normal. No pain during the day.
- took a few weeks to see a specialist, pain got worse, spasms for hours
- tried lidocaine, no real help, tried fixing diet, small improvement but lots of pain still
2nd month- spasms continue, feeling horrendous
- finally got rectogesic
- helped a lot with pain but still not enough
3rd month- some ok days, some painful
- starting making a food diary, reducing fibre, taking more care
- started self-massage, dilation
4th month- spasms less and less, sometimes 2 to 3 hours instead of 7
- last two weeks of this month no spasms, just tightness sometimes, much less pain or zero during BM
So I am now starting my 5th month! These days I only really suffer pain/discomfort for a couple of minutes after a BM. But it hasn't healed. I don't know if I should try to wait it out longer or go for surgery: Fissurectomy with botox. I don't know if perhaps the scar tissue is too chronic for it to heal 100% and I need a new wound cut through surgery. Any advice is very welcome!
Thanks for this forum!
:)