Anal Fissure Support Forum

Forgive me in advance for asking this question but I am still not sure after tons of reading, that I understand what a sentinel pile is. After a BM, I can feel a ballooned puffy thing outside anal area. It is not a "flap", just swollen skin. Hurts very bad. Then I experience ...

... have had a fleshly lump directly below my anus for as long as I can remember. It shrinks and swells throughout the day. I'm wondering if this is a sentinel skin tag? My mum says she thinks I had an anal fissure when I was younger, and from time to time I get blood on the toilet paper after a bowel ...

In January I felt like I had developed a second fissure. (I had a fissurectomy for an earlier fissure that has now healed.) There wasn't much pain and there was blood maybe once but I got a prescription for Nifedipine anyway. I stopped applying it maybe a month or two ago because I had (and have) no...

As some of you know my bump first appeared in December after a week of constant aches and intermittent bleeding. I changed my diet and the pain/bleeding went away but the bump remained for weeks. I eventually forgot all about it until this past week when I started having issues again. (Caused by con...

... have LIS performed. Scheduled 3/11 so about a week and a half away. Just wondering for any that has had it done how common is it to get skin tags/ sentinel pile after the surgery? I currently don't have any yet yet thankfully. Thanks :thankyou:

Here's both very-assuring-news and a not-so-terrific-news update. I recently had my 6 week post surgical update for my LIS/Hem's/Sentinel tag operation from Dec 2nd. The CRS was very pleased with the LIS results, said I have "the bottom of a person twenty years younger" (why ...

Hello All, I was put on Dilitiazem by the good doc. When applied I experienced a warm feeling in the area. Three days latter my sentinel pile was all flared up and its been a week now. I was wondering if dilitiazem could have caused the flare up. Has anyone else experienced this. Can someone ...

Anal fissure An anal fissure is often accompanied by a lump on the outer edge of the anus. This lump is called a ‘sentinel pile’ as it signals trouble beneath it .  When the fissure is acting up, the sentinel pile will often become quite hard and painful and itchy.  Sentinel piles ...

... I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a clinic in the UK (preferably in the southwest) that could get rid of my skin tag/sentinel pile. it's after a bad AF was there, is big and causing me further irritation! I'd prefer laser as I've heard some amazing things about it. ...

You may develop an external lump associated with your anal fissure/tear -  a sentinel pile or skin tag - as well as extra tissue just inside the anal canal (hypertrophied papilla) . Skin tags/Sentinel Piles are a common occurrence with chronic anal fissures and ...