I'm back from my vacation in Maine. It's been another month on the miralax and I'm doing tons better! I'm still on my strict fissure diet and I have pooping down to a science. I take almost a cap full of miralax right before a hearty dinner then I have wine with dinner.as soon as I wake up in mornings I have to poop. Still squatting to poop. I take long deep breaths and poop on the exhale. I'm finally able to clean my butt like normal people in shower with soap. I still don't use toilet paper. Jumping in shower after bm. I don't dry my butt with towel though, because I don't want to pry open my butt. I put folded toilet paper between checks then I flex butt cheeks to pinch toilet paper to dry off. Been getting better and better. It has taken months though, just like my crs said it would. I only get random mild spasms if I sit alot within 5 hours after morning bm. No pain during or after bm though. I might be going back to work soon. Been out of work for six months. I don't know if I would have been able to hold down a job with a fissure. At one point I literally didn't sit for over two months. I found I can eat chicken and hearty healthy meals at dinner as long as I chug almost a full cap of miralax right before dinner. My fissure still lets me know its there if I sit alot, but I don't need donut cushion anymore. I'm really hoping that the skin is healing up in there and that its just the nerves acting up under fissure. Haven't had blood in over a month since crs pried open fissure on accident.hopefully it will continue to slowly heal and I will be able to get a job again. I'm sure my butt hole is smaller because miralax gives me tiny poops, but I will worry about that when I stop taking miralax in a year or two .

Way to go, Delasama
You must have head out of Maine just before our expected snow storm!!!

Congrats delasama!!!!
One month with no bleeding! wao I wish I could be there too.
Just one question, Is Miralax safe for long term use? Here in Canada we have Restoralax that is the same.

Yes my family are teachers and they had a half school day from snow storm. Miralax is plenty safe. I take just under a cap full before dinner and I poop as soon as I wake up. I have always been cautious about medicines. Miralax seems to be ok. I was taking a cap full morning and night for a while per my crs. Now I just take cap full before dinner. Fissure is doing great. Without miralax I guess I would survive, it would just take forever.i feel bad for people that have ibs that can't take miralax. Taking the right amount of fiber helps, but it takes forever because you can still have random hard poops. I thank Jesus everyday for my progress. It's been a long road. I can't believe I finally figured it out. I know everyone is different in what works for them, but I found that strict diet and miralax right before dinner sets me on right path. I only pooped once this morning as soon as I woke up.then I was about to get in shower when I was stretching and realized I had to poop a little more. Then I was set for the day.my crs said I could take miralax for years. I'm going to take it for a year after fissure heals then I will slowly get off it and find more natural cures for soft poop. Right now I am just glad it has helped me, even though it has taken months...

Thanks savaci and galamat .nobody understands what a fissure can do to a person except us. I'm glad y'all can relate. This fissure has really tested my everything! On the up side, I lost 30pounds and went gluten free and stopped eating red meat and beer...

So glad to hear you are all but healed delasama!!

OMB x

Congrats Sam!
You give hope to the rest of us :D

I'm going to look tomoro with light up magnified makeup mirror. I did this a month ago and saw skin tag at top of hole . Hopefully it will look better tomoro.

I'm still doing great. I pooped three or four times the other day and still no spasms! I have been eating alot of chicken and potatoes. I found a half to three fourth cap full of miralax right before dinner is doing the trick.i start back at my job in a couple weeks. I'm doing great, but if I have one hard big poop then I would probably re tear my crs said.good thing for miralax!

Had a tiny bit of blood on top of last piece of stool in toilet yesterday. Went poop twice today and no blood, not even on toilet paper. I'm not going to worry about tiny bit of blood. I still have hardly any pain and can sit comfortably alot.