Anal Fissure Support Forum

... minutes, I got and intense sharp pain in the usual spot, and when I came home there was the familiar blood and mucous discharge associated with a retear. I am so angry right now. Every single web site out there says to do light exercise like walking to help the fissure heal, but going for a long ...

... was going well. ( I suffer severe anxiety) and now I'm absolutely panicking, do i need to rush to hospital? or the dr? or is this possibly a retear and nothing to worry about.

Hi everyone, i have been suffering with a fissure on and off for the past 2 years now.I could not see it but all i could see is a small skin tag..it pains on the left side right at the start of the skin tag..i saw two gastro doctors and they are of no help at all...tried so many things...finally thi...

Hi all, So, I have been suffering a particularly nasty bout of IBS over the last couple of weeks and for the first time in a long time, I'm worrying a little again... I have a chronic fissure (1 year, 5 months old) and it's always given the odd twinge on & off to let me know it's there but in the la...

... at it last night and it looked like it was healing. There is a bump at the edge of the incision. Today, out of the blue and after a good BM, I retear the opening. It started bleeding and now it feels like a paper cut and lots of pressure. I ended up taking a pain med. Did I do any damage? thanks ...

... like it had healed from what he and the other doctor shadowing could see. At that point I had been using the diltiazem for 3 weeks from the last retear. So I left the office and reoriented my mind. I decided to continue the 1/2 dose of Miralax a night and keep my fiber above average. I didn't ...

... when I thought of fissures from constipation, I typically thought they came after large or rough stools. But can tough straining alone cause a retear?

Bah. Usually when I get a re-tear, I bleed a lot. Its pretty obvious when it tears. But does it always bleed when it tears? Nowadays, I've been getting some pain sometimes when I go, but there seems to be no sign of blood. So am I still retearing? I sure as crap hope I'm not, cause I'm on my super s...

IF BMs (soft, hard) cause pain and/or bleeding (not all the time) while a fissure is healing or not, then how do you know if there is a retear??

So I think I might have OD'd on fiber. Too many rye crackers yesterday combined with the fact that I started taking max doses of Benefiber= ouch. Benefiber seems to have a more subtle effect than Metamucil, which I can't take because it tears me up. So I didn't think I could hurt myself with the Ben...