Hello Everyone, I'll start by saying that my thoughts are with everyone of you who is suffering from any uncomfortable condition.
In my case, I believe that I have an Anal Fissure. My specialist says so anyways. For the last year, it started as a severe itch, that I may have scratched. Then, on the outside/base of my anus there is a small hard bump (under the skin). Besides being there, there wasn't too much discomfort. As the months went on it started to become painful, I couldn't sit, coughing, sneezing, anything started to hurt. So I went to my specialist. He quickly dismissed it as a hemmoroid so we did the Sigmoidoscopy, which is a probe to a depth of 25cm, where he saw and banded a hemmoired (that wasn't the main problem in the first place). The pain that night was severe, I was throwing up, shaking, and moaning all night to the point where I had to go get pain killers.
When that pain subsided and the Hemmeroid healed over a few weeks, the fissure has remained and the symptoms were worse than ever. My specialist prescribed a cream mixture of nifedepine/lanolin/petrolium which I had been using for 3 months straight, 3 times a day. Things were getting great, I had improved my diet immensely, take the necessary vitamins but still, it remains... just when it feels like its 80-90% healed, the next day it seems to be bothersome once again.. I know surgery is an option, but due to my condition, I'm reluctant to let anyone go up there and risk tearing it even further.
Is there anything I can do to help speed this process? any natural remedies? anything at all? I appreciate and am thankful for anyone who reads and answers.
Best of luck to everyone involved on this forum and around the world who has this problem or one like it!