by brycesara » 07 Jan 2020, 20:42
Hello, my name is Sara and my husband Bryce is suffering from a fissure. I am typing this post for him. He has had fissures in the past but they would heal within a few days. He got a fissure back in September, think it abscessed slightly but healed quickly. He started getting terrible rectal pain, sharp shooting pains, dull aches. But he did not have the fissure pain anymore and the abcess had healed. He could not walk, sit, and each BM would be painful and then the aching, spasm of the muscles would start. All of his muscles in his butt, tailbone, would all tighten up and cause terrible pain, back pain, leg pain. He thought it was internal hemmroids at that point. We couldn't find a colorectal doctor that had a pediatric scope that was nearby since we had moved further away from his previous CRS. We found one doctor but he only did an exterior exam by separting the rectum and there was no fissure as of November 14. He also could not ride in any vehicle without terrible rectal pain. since he thought it was internal hemmroids, he used one of those small freezer inserts into his rectum to try to relieve his immense pain. It immediately relieved his immense pain. But the next day with BM he knew he had a fissure, but he felt like it was in a different area than his other fissures that reoccur now and then. Possibly from the freezer device or maybe just from the immense pain and spasm he was in that night. Finally found a CRS with small scope but that doc did not want to examine him with ped scope due to fissure. So he had a flex sigmoid scope done the day after Christmas 2019 with the same doc. They found the fissure and thank the Lord nothing else. But with the flex scope I think that maybe it just reopened the fissure. He has been using Diltizem, Bethanocoal, and Nitroglicerin and Calmoseptine, and few other things. The muscle is relaxed when you feel it, not tight like it was, but he is still having the terrible pain after a BM, and just wondering how he can know what is actually the pain from the fissure and what is spasm? He is still getting the sharp shooting pain, the dull ache, the soreness, the inablility to walk, sit, ride in car (all that he had prior to the fissure). The fissure is right near the outside of the anus (from what the doctor said from the flex scope). Also seems like he is/was having levantor ani syndrome/proxia fluax symptoms all along. He had similar symptoms 10 years ago, went to his previous doc and when he examined him there was nothing there. He prescribed him valium and his symtoms went away in 3 months. No docs will prescribe valium now though. It definitely worked for unknown spasm. Any help with this is greatly appreciated, thank you.
Sara & Bryce