Hi. Found this group while searching for other people's experiences. Here's my story. I'm a 27 year old women. So I've had a anal fissure for 4 years now but it came back with a vengeance after I had my first baby 5 1/2 months ago. Fissure been back and not budging for 4months now. So between having a new baby and crying on the toilet everyday I decided to go to the doctors. To which she gave me lactulose and a cream to use twice a day for 6 weeks. Can't remember the name but it gave me the worse headaches and actually made the pain worse with it on. If the pain having a BM wasn't bad enough the pain afterwards lasted sometimes a whole day. So hot baths it was all the time. ( thank god I'm on maternity leave). So last week I went back to the doctors. I now have two massive skin tags which she said she can't help anymore and she is sending me to a surgeon. On a positive note she did give me instillagel which I have used once and for a first time in a long while managed to empty my bowels fully and didn't need to jump in a bath straight after. She is also testing me for IBD which I hope I don't have. (fingers crossed)!!
So if anyone has any words of wisdom they would be greatly apprieciated!!