Thank you so much for answering - all of you!!
I don't think I have had this thing for 8 years, but the bleeding has been quite heavy, especially in the winter. I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease eight years ago. The pain has been a problem on and off, but it was last autumn that my fissure hell started. In January when I went to se my doctor/GP it was like giving birth when I had a BM (which I can have up to 4 times a day). I have always thought I had hemoroids.
I take sitz bath after each BM, but just for a minute and then a shower. I use some kind of soap in the water, not ordinary soap. This bath is necessary to take away the pain after each BM.
I have been using (a lot) of nitro cream, now I am using the one called Rectogesic.
It wasn't constipation that caused it for me, but because of my Coeliac disease my digestion and my BM has always been kind of difficult and a story on their own.
I am on a high fiber diet now, but I have to eat fruit and vegetables since my diet has to be gluten free (no bread). I think the problem for me is to get stool that is "perfect", not too hard or to.... it is a difficult balance to get "the perfect pooh" (as Gilliam Mc Keith on British BBC television talks a lot! about) .
It is a harsh sentence yes, and I hate what this does to my family. I am not being the mum I should be, it feels like I have to pretend to be happy..
What I have tried to do? When the fissure was big and extremely painful (first 2-3 months) I ate as little as possible. A lot of smoothie and soup. I have lost a lot of weight without dieting. I just couldn't eat when thinking about my PAINFUL BM next morning. It was like a horror movie to wake up in the morning
, back to reality - you have to go to the toilet!
Now I'm trying to live more normal, but I still drink about one litre of water with each meal, I take 2 spoons of olive oil a day, stool softener, flax seed, little or no - wine, meat, coffeine, etc.
I am so happy this forum exists, it was one of the other users who told me about it. Have read it a couple of weeks, feel like I know some of you :D
It is (as so many of you have said already) difficult to live a normal life with this, it affects your mood and one gets depressed. Very often when being with friends I feel like I have to pretend to be normal, and especially on bad days you just want to be left alone and be blue. I think both husband and family are fed up with this, but not as much as me
Some questions, what is:
MOM?
LIS (partial cutting in the sphincter)?
Fissurectomy?
Salt bath/sitz bath with salt?? (never heard about it...)
And again, thank you :D Sorry for writing so much...
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