Anal Fissure Support Forum

I thought it was bad in the UK! Yet you still got a rough deal and they are way more advanced, I think its disgusting the way we are treated and have to put up with it. Poor you! I've had it a week, but I just thought it was the fissure come back, but it got worse and worse and then leaked yucky stu...

Thank you- though mine is nothing compared to what you've been through! Was yours a fistula or an abcess? Or are they the same thing? Was the surgery really dreadful, and how long did you have it before the surgery? My doctor said the skin tag was inflamed too, so I don't know if thats got an abcess...

That sounds an absolute nightmare. I didn't know they could fill up again and again. Are you on acidophilus now?
Why didn't they just operate immediately instead of letting you suffer like that? They're damn painful aren't they!

Wow! Did you have to have surgery to get rid of the abcess? Did yours turn to a fistula? I'm so freaked out about all this, its like when I first got the fissure, because I didn't understand about it all, it was scary, but talking to everyone on here and knowing what to expect helped so much. I don'...

Oh my God, that sounds awful! Are you allright now? Is that what caused you a fissure, or did you get both? You're so right, the GPs here are cr*p. I live in Essex, but the specialist I went to is at the Nuffield in Ipswich. I assumed it was just around here that was so useless, but maybe its everyw...

Isn't it just so awful when you think everythings better and healed and you have your life back, and then wham! back it comes like a nasty demon creature as if to say"I'm still here, don't you dare forget me!!"
Wish you well again,
Val

Has anyone had an abcess that bled? And did it heal up with antibiotics? Is it like a one-off kinda thing or once you've had one do they re-occur?
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I'm even more freaked about this thing than the fissure!
Thanks, Val

My first doctor looked and said it was a fissure, and I had all the symptoms- I had massive bleeding at first which diminished over a few months and the spasms had me rolliing on the bed crying in agony after going to the toilet. That went on for months too, until Lecia suggested valium and diltiaze...

I know I have a fissure because of the spasms and bleeding ect., that I've had, and my first doctor said it was there. My specialist is private, and funny enough I had an appointment with him yesterday, but I cancelled it because a) I was feeling better last week when I cancelled it and b) because o...

Hi all! thanks so much for making me go to the GP! I just got back and they are so useless, its untrue! You have to see a nurse first, you cant just see the doctor unless you book an appointment weeks in advance. The nurse knew NOTHING about fissures and said she'd learnt a lot from me tonight.Great...