As you guys know I've had an AF for close to 3 years now but one thing that has started happening over the past few months is that my coxis (tailbone) has been numb a lot of the time and when I squeeze my butt cheeks together the pain is there (not my bum but actual tail one)
Anyone had this as a side effect of fissures? Its funny how its just started. Not sure if its related tbh

mountainman, could it be your back? A back problem, perhaps?
If not, it could possibly be your AF. Ever since my AF flared back up, I've had weird tingling down below, plus a heaviness in the cheeks - it's really strange.
I'm wondering if I'll ever feel normal again . . .

Yes it can be from the fissure. I know when mine was at it's worst, I would get a dull ache in my left butt cheeck and it would radiate to my back and into the left side of my vagina :oops: Sorry about being graphic but that's what happend. We overcompensate from out pain without even knowing it. One day at work, I had my butt cheecks clentched so tight and didn't even realize it until I felt the pain.

Sue - I think you're right about how our bodies overcompensate, and we don't even know it . . .
I think I've been clenching, somehow, from this fissure - and the cheeks feel tight. Like you, I haven't tried to clench the muscles - I think it's just happening.
And I can relate to the female parts being involved . . . when my fissure recurred, I also felt like I had a UTI (but I didn't). That's how bad the pain was.

yeah I know that feeling also. I am a nurse and I was checking my urine at work on a daily basis. LOL Only to be normal. Fissures really make your body go crazy.