Hi everyone! I have been suffering with AF since September 2010, about 4 weeks after I had my son. Everyone told me the first BM after you have a baby hurts like hell but mine was a breeze! It was a month or so later at home that I remember screaming in the bathroom! I knew I had a few hemmies from the delivery but had only occasional discomfort from them so at the time I thought that was what my pain was from. After suffering for hours every day for a week I scheduled an appointment with my OBGYN. She prescribed me hydro-cortisone, told me to take Metamucil, and sit in the tub. So I did...and a week later went back because my pain was even worse! She referred me to the gastroenterologist who didn't even examine me, just wrote me yet another hydrocortisone rx and said it was normal for hemorrhoids to hurt for hours everyday!! What???
So, fed up and completely miserable taking care of my infant son all by myself everyday, I searched around until I found the closest CRS in my area...an hour and a half away! I made a appointment, took my son to daycare, saw the doctor and got diagnosed with hemorrhoids AGAIN! I toughed it out until March 2011 following the hemmie care routine before going back. He examined me again and TA-DA! found a fissure! Started me on diltiazem ointment, told me to get in the tub lots more, and gave me some lidocaine cream to help on tough days. So finally in August 2011, I finally felt like my fissure was healed but was still having pain pooing but I thought a new little hemmie was to blame. I went back to see my CRS today and he told me I didn't have a new hemmie but a skin tag, from a new fissure! Seriously?!? He is giving me 2 weeks to try and get this one on the road to recovery before he wants to try anal dilation and possibly LIS. He said my sphincter was so tight that he could barely see what was going on. So now I'm upset, terrified, and so let down. I healed my first fissure only to get another, it's not fair in the slightest.
Ok if you have read all this, you're a saint! Thank you for letting me cry and share my story!