OK, I saw the doc a couple weeks ago and they said I had two fissures, one small one at 6 o'clock (if my penis is 12 o'clock) and a bigger one at 9 o'clock. They gave me hyrdo cortisone suppositories to take once every night, told me to stay on a high fiber diet, take sitz baths and stool softeners.
Anyhow, I have things down to a pretty good science so far. Drink at least eight glasses of water per day, take Benefiber at night as well as four stool softeners and am eating better. I have one BM first thing in the morning and the last few have been very good, no blood in the bowl, very little on the wipes and no pain.
However, the itching is unbelievable. After each BM is it amazing so I jump into the shower and put the nozzle "up in that area" to sooth the itch. Then I dry very well and go on my way. A few times during the day the itch flares up and I do the shower/dry thing again.
Today was a little different. The itching was beyond amazing and I did everything I could not to scratch and it worked but I think I wiped a tad aggressively because it felt so good against the itch and then this afternoon the itch was back very badly.
Any suggestions for this? I hated the pain and blood of the fissure and am happy that has subsided for now and I will continue to stick to my plan, but the itching hasn't gotten under control yet. I assume it's a healing itch because I am getting better, but it makes me want to scratch and rip everything open again.
I was told to keep it dry and use as few creams as possibly by my CRS but I have used lidocaine a few times when I had to. Any other suggestions to stop this horrible itch?