by Fred55 » 07 Aug 2022, 09:32
Dust 2 Dust, Rlt78, I hope you'll start to see more healing kicking in as time goes by.
My situation is rather peculiar as I can't trace any problem down there but suffer from pain when sitting only! A bit of history:
Around 15 years ago I had fissure-like symptoms. I say fissure-like because I never had one, but was diagnosed anusitis. I was experiencing blood in stool and burning sensation. I was told I should avoid certain foods (spicy, acidic, etc.) and I did so and healed after a few months. In hindsight, diet probably wasn't that much important as I went back to my normal diet after that for 15 years and didn't have any problem! I always had minor IBS though. Anyways, it all started this January. I got classic fissure symptoms (broken glass feeling, bleeding with BM) after constipation twice, once in January and then in March. For both times, I healed it with ointments after a week or so. Now here's my main issue which is totally new to me and is driving me crazy:
Ever since March, I don't see a drop of blood, don't see any anomalies in the areas in or out, no pain during BM, but just sphincter tightness and PAIN WHEN SITTING! It's pain free at the beginning, but starts to pain when sitting prolongs beyond half an hour. I also have developed tailbone pain and cannot tell whether or not the whole pain I'm experiencing is originated at my tailbone. It certainly pains sharply when I press on my tailbone. When I'm sitting, the pain gradually increase but it's fair to say the pain is always low grade (I never can understand the scale to 10 thing!! but let say on average it's 2-3 out of ten). When I stand up from sitting I feel a sharp pain in my tailbone that radiates to my buttocks and then goes away. Oddly I'm more comfortable sitting on hard surfaces as I lean a bit forward but when I sit upright or backward it's worst (specially sitting on dental unit). The pain is muscle pain is not localized.
Sorry guys too much venting here! but this is driving me nuts as I cannot find what's causing this damn thing! One colonoscopy in February and two MRIs since cannot find any problem (the colonoscopy doctor just said it seemed you had a fissure that fully healed). I also saw hemorrhoids/lumps a couple times but I'm almost sure they where either sentinel piles or more likely just reaction to ointments as they disappeared when I stopped using ointments. I hope we all heal from this annoying affliction (in my case I'll be also happy to know what the affliction is!!).