Hello
I have just joined the forum, but have been reading for some weeks. It had really helped.
My storey to date:
Only early this year did I develop fissures. I have been suffering from hemorrhoids for years, since my children, but always been manageble. This February we were driving to Austria and the mess was extremely uncomfortable. I assumed that the hemorroids were just getting bad and used treatments, but the mess home two weeks later was so so bad and it was then I realised that something more was going on.
The doctor confirmed by suspricians that I had AF and precribed Rectogesic Ointment. Boy! what an experience that was, each time I was left with a headache aswell as the pain from my BM.
Never have I experienced so much pain, I can only describe it as either lemon juice being run through or a knife being passed up and down !!!!
After 5 weeks I started to notice that things were getting better, carried on treating for another 3 days and then stopped.
Two weeks pain free, I nearly forgot what that felt like. My poor poor husband he is a 'saint'
I have the last few days had twangs and started treatment again but the pain is really not as bad.
What I have noticed what the first episode and this second one, was trigard by stress. I had been in hospital having some polyp bipsys taken from my bladder which were all clear, probably caused by an infection that I had in the past. This time one had been found on my cervix, this is being removed on Wednesday. But what I have noticed the stress effect my BM and seems to trigar my hemorroids and also the fissures.
I would be interested to hear if other people find that stress and BM links trigar the symtoms.
Many thanks.