Boy, am I glad I found you guys!! Thanks for replying to my questions. I want to know how much blood you all see when you are experiencing any bleeding with a BM? Is it just on the toilet paper, or does it cover the poo with streaks of blood, or does it fill the bowl and turn it red, do you ever have it drip out, or spurt out???? I am just wondering what the "norm" is for everyone when it comes to bleeding. And do you all freak out as much as I do when you see hte blood?? I really need some encouraging, relaxing words here, because I realize that my fear of going to the bathroom and bleeding is way out of control, I really get myself worked up thinking I am going to just bleed and bleed and it won't stop! My Dr. said it always stops when you get up off the toilet, and realizes how fearful I am of this but maybe hearing from you guys will help me to RELAX!!!!
Also, wondering if any of you take either magnesium or miralax for constipation and to keep thigs moving softly, more about that later...Thanks everyone!!

yes bleeding freaks me out ALOT! for me it varies. i can remember a time bout 2-3 years ago when i tore myself really bad, so much blood on TP, it was horrific! i didnt look in the bowl but im sure if i did it would have been bad. an it wouldnt stop bleeding 4 a while after. i had to have a long shower and wash the area really well which stopped it. one time when i tore myself i tried to look in the mirror to see if i could see what was there and as i beared down and (sorry about being graphic) opened up drops of blood actually came from the cut. while trying to heal my most recent fissure i actually bled while sitting in my sitz tub, i think it was because the water was too hot, as that can encourage blood loss. but then sometimes i bleed very little. by dabbing the area with TP, i can see the fissure as theres a small dot or 'tear' shape of blood which im guessing if from the wound. so yeah basically it varies from loads to bearly anything, but i hate both!

I'm not much of a bleeder period, even when I deeply cut my fingers while cooking.

When I did bleed, like after the surgery or when I initially got the fissure, there were drops in the toilet. I could literally bear down and make my arse drip blood. when I first got the F, the blood lasted a day for me. the surgery blood lasted a week, but that cut was infected and down to the muscle. If you are injuring yourself each time you poo, I could see how the blood would be more. Plus, some people are just more prone to bleeding. did the Dr say that you have a hemmie? thoe can bleed soemthing fierce. Literally, I've seen videos of hemmie veins squirting blood.

I bled only once and profusely - toilet bowl was covered completely !!! I thought that my hem. bursted or something because I never had a fiss. before or any kind of bleeding down there. Although I have a fissure now for 14 weeks it never bleeds (?!?), guess it is good ... But it surely HURTS like hell...

It's so weird...I have bleeding, no pain...and then some of you have pain, no bleeding. I guess the pain is worse than the bleeding, but I can't help but freak out when I see blood in the toilet, then my fear of not stopping bleeding kicks in...I know I sound ridiculous, but for some reason, I can't help the freaking out part!

yeah i'd rather have blood than pain! :-)
i use to bleed drops of blood in the loo.....
sometimes as i helped stretch myself, blood would be on a finger tip or two.
i could see blood on toilet paper.
but i've never experienced seeing blood when i bent over to see the fissure because i never attempted to really try to see it!
:-)

in the first few months of my fissure, i had a lot of bleeding. like dripping in the toilet, enough to make me think it was period blood. the pain was excruciating during BM and for a short while after. i had lots of itching also in the beginning stages. then the bleeding stopped and the pain started lasting all day after BM, as it's continued to do ever since. i've never had the spasms that so many people talk about, although i have a lot of burning and raw-sensation.

Normally with an AF if it's hurt during a BM I just get a bit of blood on the toilet paper - until I caused my 2nd AF then there was loads on pain so much blood I thought I'd just started my period & the start of the terrible spasms !
Since using GTN I stooped having pain on BM within 4 days & stopped bleeding as well but the spasms are taking longer to go!
I can't see the AFs anymore but it must be still not healed inside !

motherluch wrote:It's so weird...I have bleeding, no pain...and then some of you have pain, no bleeding. I guess the pain is worse than the bleeding, but I can't help but freak out when I see blood in the toilet, then my fear of not stopping bleeding kicks in...I know I sound ridiculous, but for some reason, I can't help the freaking out part!

yeah i dont have pain either except from the fissure itself during bm, tearing, stabbing raw feeling. i freak out too when i see the blood, it actually bothers me more than the pain. i also worry when i see it that it wont stop.

I had more problems with the fissure hurting itself-I did not get spasms that were strong enough for me to heal except for during my period.