Anal Fissure Support Forum

our MOM contains 415 mg magnesium hydroxide per 5ml., purified water, sodium hydrogen carbonate, oil of peppermint, sodium saccharin, glycerol. It says to take 6-9 5ml spoonfuls for a laxative but that is SCARILY too much! I was up all night on much less than that! Thanks for the 'smileys' info Leci...

thanks!
so you mean they actually insert the probe into your rear end near the fissure? ow! ow! ow! there's NO way he's gonna do that to me at the moment, especially if I'm awake!

Our MOM over here is peppermint indigestion medicine. It does say it relieves constipation if you take a lot of it. So is this the same stuff as you guys are taking?And if it's a laxative can you take it long term, or would that do more harm than good. I've heard that taking laxatives for a long tim...

I know what you mean! Mind you, if someone told me to eat daffodils and rub seawater onto it and it would be cured, I would try it!!

Thank you, I think we're all kings and queens of pain and we all deserve the title! I think the hot water causes the blood to flow better in the area(not sure!) but I think it relaxes all your muscles including the splincter muscle that needs to relax. I always bath in either epsom salts or savlon, ...

The cream has really helped me, I was in agony for about 3 months but on the advice of the forum, I asked my doctor for valium and the anoheal. When I put in a repeat prescription this time, I asked for 2 tubes of it so that I wouldn't run out, as none of our chemists stock it, it has to be special ...

Hi Lecia
I always use ice every morning and night after a bm.I put an ice cube in a very thin sandwich bag, you know the ones you get on a roll? and then wrap a sheet of loo paper round it and apply it like thet. Then no-one can see it!!

I use wheatgerm oil which is really soothing and get vitimin E capsules which you're supposed to take as a supplement and cut them and use those. Actually, I used to use them instead of a night cream on my face and they worked brilliantly!!

Our UK anoheal is a white thick cream that looks like nappy cream!

Hello! I'm from the UK too, there aren't many of us here, and we seem not to have the same creams and pain releif that our US friends do. My doctor and crs are not overly helpful and they don't seem very clued up on AFs either! It takes me up to 3 weeks to get the anoheal cream as it is apparently s...