Hello everyone!
I am so glad to find this board and feel I'm not alone.
Well, I haven't read the entire board but I guess I am going to be one of the long suffers. I have been suffering with anal fissures for over 12 years!
They are definitly chronic. I have always suffer from my digestive system since I was a baby (by the way I am 37). Everything started around 1998 when I develop hemorroids. They became big and really painful. Blood in my stool became frequent and scare me a lot. I decided to have surgery for the hemorroids and the Dr. told me I had also a pretty big fissure. That was my introduction to anal fissures. My hemorroid problem went away but the fissure keep coming back. I have tried eveything and sooner or later the fissure or fissures (it feels like is more than one) came back.
My last Dr. recommend me the nytroglycerin ointment but cound't use it for more than a couple of days because the headaches I was getting made everything worst. I have found that the bath sitz and replacing toilet paper for baby wipes work best but really I keep suffering. I am a little hesitant about surgery because all the side effects I have read.
Well, that is my history and I am glad to have found this board! :)