So I was on my regimen of 0.2% GTN 3 times a day and Miralax.
Yesterday, I took a little too much Miralax and had a diarrhea that caused a re-tear. Loads of blood on my toilet paper and a lot of pain for the next 5 hours afterwards.
At dinner time, I was talking to the inlaws, 3/4 of which also had anal fissure. My father-in-law insisted that I try his "Sandoz AnuZinc HC". He says that after about 3 applications all pain is gone and bleeding will stop. I was extremely skeptical, but my pain was so bad last night I was desperate. I took a look in the mirror and I saw a small external hemorrhoid on the anterior portion of the anus and my tear was bright red on the posterior.
I applied the ointment around my anus and 1 cm into the rectum. In about 15 minutes it started to itch. In about 30 minutes my pain and itch stopped completely. The pain went from a 7/10 to 1/10. No more spasm / contraction pain. When I woke up this morning, I applied it one more time and then had a BM.
No pain during BM, no bleeding, no pain after BM.
I took a look in the mirror and saw that the external hemorrhoid on the anterior as shrunken to almost nothing. The tear is this there but didn't look quite as angry. As well I didn't have headache that GTN gave me.
I'm not saying this is a miracle drug, but this is the FIRST time in 2.5 months I can say I had no pain during BM, no bleeding, and no pain after BM.
I plead many of our fellow sufferers to at least give this a good try.