Hi there. I am new to the boards, although have been using the site for many months now for advice etc. A summary of me is that I have a chronic AF and have had for the last 16 months - it started just after the birth of my second child. I live in the UK. I have tried all the creams, on a very high fibre diet, take about 100mls of lactulose a day, don't eat red meat etc etc. I had first lot of botox in March of this year, it worked for a while but then the AF came back with avengence over the summer. So, I had a second botox injection and fissurectomy almost 2 weeks ago and have for the last week been in serious absolute agony. I was in pain following the first injection but nothing at all like this. I was out of town last week so in desperation went to see a local GP to see if perhaps there was something seriously wrong following the procedure. He said that he can see 3 haemarroids on the left side and that these have probably been caused by the stress of the procedure.
I spoke to my CRS on Friday who reassured me that this could have happened and we discussed my pain relief. I am taking ibuprofen, paracetamol and tramadol, plus using lidocaine gel and literally i get hardly any relief from the pain at all. After a BM the pain is just so awful i have to lie down, then the pain comes and goes literally all day. I have 2 children of 4 and 16 months so being incapacitated like this is just terrible - plus it is half term hols now for the older one so i am about to face a week with both of them.
I just wondered if anyone else had had these haemarroids following botox - the GP told me that it would probably take 1 to 2 weeks to go - is this likely? My CRS said that I could come and see him if I wanted to and he would check me over and give reassurance, although if i felt it wasn't necessary he was sure that i was doing all that could be done.
I am seriously at the end of my tether with all of this and finding it so difficult. The pain is just like nothing I have ever experienced and far far worse than the AF pain and about a hundred times worse than the pain I was in pre botox injection!
If anyone has any words of wisdom / advice that would really really be appreciated. Like many others i haven't really told many people about this but now that i am so incapacitated i am starting to have to tell people.
Thanks very much for listening!