anyone here have good luck healing a fissure with epsom salt in the bath? i read that it might help..
anyone know about this?
even after lis this fissure is as bad as ever...
i need my own personal dietitian to help keep my stool right... and regulated. :)

I used Epsom salts (Pharmacy Grade) in the bath for the first month after LIS, I had a massive black bruise around my anus after the surgery and Epsom Salts is renowned for healing bruises, I believe this helped the bruising and swelling go down much faster than if I'd of just bathed in plain water, so using it cannot do any harm, give it a try, despite my long and slow healing I still think that using the salts helped relieve the symptoms quicker

thanks for the reply.... "luckily" the only symptom i really have is bleeding... when i have big stool... maybe the salt will help with healing
i agree with a post of yours i saw.. i would like some type of bag hook up for a few months to let this heal! :)

I tried Epsom salt bathes for other things and do find it soothing. Personally I didn't find it very effective at actually healing anything (just my personal experience) but it does make symptoms ranging from itching to soreness decrease a bit. The concentration has to be pretty high (say a couple cups per bathtub full) before I notice any symptomatic relief though.

As far as I remember, it contains magnesium and Mg can be absorbed cutaneously , hence it supposedly helps relaxing muscles in general.
I used it - did not see any difference in healing, but I liked using it LOL since it was combined with some nice herbal oils that were soothing to my nerves, I guess ; ) !
Can not do any harm- that is for sure , and can possibly help !!! : ))))

I've been using epsom salt in my sitz bath lately to help with the swelling after my surgery.I think for an acute fissure it can help heal it since it does relax the sphincter muscles.I really doubt its gonna do anything for a chronic fissure though.

yeah there seems to be nothing to do for this chronic one! went back to the dr after the lis... and he was like... ughhhh go back to the grastro doc...
that would be going around in a circle!

Go to CRS , if you can. They are really the only ones that are "in tune" with this condition 100 %
You know - chronic fissures are really hard to heal due to a scar tissue that forms and prevents nice and even closing of the wound : (((. BUT - it is not impossible !!!!!!!!!! NEVER loose hope and always look for the solution !
I needed 2 LIS surgeries until I was healed once and for all !!!! (KTW !!!!!)

thanks for the hope!!!!!
what is CRS??

ahhh colo-rectal surgeon? i guess thats the guy who did mine....it says he is a "MD, FACS"