Finished May last year with antibiotics and diarrhoea just before embarking on a 100 mile charity bike ride! Day after the ride was fine but gradually noted watery blood in the toilet and a full feeling after a BM. Anusol, Preparation X and any other pile cream I could find didn't cure it and after a 2000mile camper van trip in France in the Summer, I was ready to visit "Goldfinger" and sort things out !! (I'm a bloke of 50, sensitive and in good health, keen mountain biker! and was not relishing the thought of the examination) Anyway, after an unpleasant examination (for both of us I would think!) I knew at last what it was, an anal fissure and the Rectagesic cream was prescribed and explained. After a couple of days of acute headaches and feeling it wasn't helping I gave up and went back to plenty of water, warm baths and not sitting down too much. Soon realized I had to give it a go again so tried again with the Rectagesic at night and everything mentioned by other people on various websites and keeping off my bike. Improvement was slow and slight bleeding still occurred sometimes but after three tubes of Rectagesic and three months, I cracked it! (Excuse the pun) It was the best Christmas present I had and 7 weeks of normality followed eating what I wanted, not drinking 10 gallons of water a day and I even got back on my bike.
However, a six hour drive in the car last week and a very hard BM when I was in a hurry to get to work and bang, back to square one.........Do I start again, will it ever heal, will my wife put up with me moaning for another three months, how long can you keep taking Rectagesic, any cyclists out there know how I feel? Please cheer me up. BB