by PaulsPain » 04 Aug 2011, 19:54
Tomatoes are wayyyyyy to acidic for me. I definitely have had issues after eating raw tomatoes or tomato sauce. I only can sneak a slice here and there.....
All the things you listed are not good for AF - acidic or could cause hard BM. If you just got the fissure I would go on a AF strict diet for the best hope of healing it conservatively.
Caffeine is bad since it is acts like a diuretic. I used to be a huge coffee drinker before my rear end issues started. I found that I would just drink coffee in the morning without much water. So I would always have these BM that started hard and then turned soft - complete torture with an active fissure. I discovered it was the fact that I was not drinking water and the coffee was sucking it out of me which made it even worse. I still have about a 1/2 cup(~4 oz) in the morning now with a large glass of water. This has worked well for me.
Part of it will be experimenting with food that you can and cannot eat. For a long time I kept a food diary and also rated my pain for that morning BM. This helped me analyze what food I maybe should avoid. Diet is one of the most frustrating parts since it can correlate directly to pain.