Hi everyone,
I was diagnosed with a fissure a few weeks ago after first being diagnosed with hemorrhoids by the emergency room doctor. I finally went to a colon/rectal surgeon who said it is a fissure. The pain is unbearable and I have been in pain with absolutely no relief for over one month now. I suffered a traumatic event in late January which seems to have triggered all of this. Since then it has gotten so much worse and the situation isn't resolved, so I'm sure the stress is not helping. The pain is like glass cutting through my colon/rectum. Sometimes I am in a store or walking and I get a sudden severe pain/spasm. My face gets redder than a tomato, my heart starts racing, my veins pop out of my head and basically I can't even move. I've become completely debilitated by it. I was given Tramadol for pain but unfortunately I had a severe reaction to it and can't take it. The DR said there is no other pain med he can give me because they are constipating and will make it worse so I am suffering thru this with no pain meds. Now my tailbone is hurting too. It feels like something is pressing on it at times and other times it is just a dull pain. I can't even pee right...my whole body feels out of whack. Does anyone else have this much pain? It just seems so abnormal and excruciating. I'm afraid that it's going to give me a heart attack! The DR gave me a new medicine to try to heal it. It is callled Nefedipine. It is mixed with a numbing med and made into a cream that I am supposed to apply 4x daily to heal the fissure but when I apply it I get joint pain... Oh, and since I got the fissure I've also developed skin tags...like 50 of them. They seem to be multiplying. After a particularly painful BM the other day, it seemed like the fissure blew open even more and one of the tags is huge. These seem to be in the way too when I try to go to the bathroom. Does this all sound like normal fissure symptoms? I know it's painful but these seems extreme and I'm wondering if there is something else going on like colon cancer. I a just really worried and feel like I'm going to die from the pain. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.