Hello to all,
I found this forum by Google. My story with anal fissure started 6 months ago in May 2023. First, I had a small bleeding post BM and started to feel discomfort. I signed it off as haemmorrhoids thinking it will go away.
In time, discomfort turned into pain and finally I found myself bite the pillow not to disturb the neighbours as I was screaming in pain. I saw my GP and was given hammerrhoids ointments. It didn't help and I went on to see CS who diagnosed me with anal fissure and prescribed nitro-glycerine ointment. It didn't help and I booked second appointment for next Friday.
Throughout this time I tried tens of ointments, even engaging people from other countries to bring me what they heard that "works" for my condition. At one moment there was a 10 days "pause" of pain and I thought it was over. Then I had a very hard stool and was back in pain. To cope with the pain I started taking NSAID Ketoprofen 50-100mgs aand am taking it in average every second day.
Long story short:
Out of all this ointments and remedies I found this to work to aleviate the pain to some degree for me:
- benzocaine ointment
- cold gel compress