Hi.
My fissure made itself known back in April. In all my research this forum seems to pop up the most so I decided to join. At this point my questions are few but I really need support from others who suffer the same fate. It's just nice to know the people reading this are most likely well aware of my ailment and that brings me comfort.
I began working out and eating better back in Dec 2011. I simply decided to change my life for the better and that is exactly what the exercise did. It made my life worth living again as I suffer depression and no drug seemed to help me in that dept.
Long story short, I dropped 50lbs in about a year and a half and all but eradicated my depression. Exercise is good. I began to work out harder and faster, taking supplements and massive amounts of protien. I stacked some nice muscle weight and suddenly my life changed... Again.
I assumed I had aggrivated some hemmhoroids I had been diagnosed with years earlier but to that point had never caused me pain. By the time I found out it was a fissure from my Colo/Rectal Surgeon, the pain was near unbearable.
I fell into a regimen of treatment. Miralax every night, high fiber diet, three sitz baths per day @ twenty minutes each, 0.4% Nitroglycerine ointment twice per day with A&D ointment in between. I was determined to heal because I had a pre-booked vacation/wedding in Mexico in late May. I did well. The Surgeon said I showed great improvement and to continue the treatments. The trip went well, though I did continue treatments thereon.
I fell off the treatment a bit when the pain began to subside and that was a bad idea. I drank alcohol, ate fried foods with less fiber, took fewer sitz baths etc. The pain came back.
So here I am, typing this at work, just coming down from a usual, post-defecation, four-hour stint of incredible pain. I sit all day in a cubicle which does not help. But I have to get paid and took way too many sick days in the beginning of this fiasco.
Judging by the research i've done I'm only at the beginning of this nightmare. I NEED to work out to stave off my depression and just recently began easy resistance/cardio workouts last week even though it does seem to aggrivate the condition to some degree. I'm at the point where I'd rather the physical pain in the arse than the mental anguish in my mind brought on by the depression.
So I suppose my question - if you can call it that - involves exercise with fissures. Does anyone here do it? If so to what degree? Does it hurt your fissure or help it? Really, I'm looking for anything you can tell me that you might consider notable on the subject so feel free to go outside of the specific questions I've posed.
As most of you already know, this lifestyle isn't easy. And what's worse is trying to explain yourself to others without really "explaining" yourself too much. So I'm grateful to have this community to share.
Thanks