I have had an anal fissure for about 7 or 8 years with varying intensities. Sometimes it was minor and sometimes it was extremely painful and bloody. About 2 years ago now the drummer in the band I am in (BC/DC) mentioned to me that someone he knew used Rutin to cure their fissure. I looked around for it and found it in a local health food shop here in Vancouver, I couldn't find it at any drugstore. Since I have been taking it (1 x 250mg a day) any sign of the fissure is gone. There was a few months that I ran out of of it and I wanted to see if the fissure would return just as a test to know if it was a coincidence that it went away but within a month the fissure returned. I am now convinced that this worked for me. There is not a lot of information on the long term affects of Rutin but I have no side effects at all. A bottle of 90 capsules is about $10 Canadian.
I hope this helps someone as I wish I had been told about this 8 years ago. Any doctor I talked to said to use stool softeners but that never worked for me and was just a temporary fix as I saw it.
Good luck everyone.
Cheers
BC/DC
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