Hi Guys...............Well, I have been reading these posts for a few weeks now, and I guess it is time to join in......you all seem so helpful and
thoughtful with one another javascript:emoticonp(':D')- my wife can only take so much, and as you all say, unless it is happening to you - it's often just "so, you have a sore bum........soldier on". My pain probably hasn't gotten over a 4 to 5 out of 10......so I feel for anyone who reports a 9 to 10 !! My symptoms arrived 2nd Jan 2013............so I am just over 6 1/2 weeks into this HORRIBLE and annoying ailment. It is affecting me
mentally more than physically...........I know it is early days, but any advice on how to shut this out of your mind and not let it overtake your life? I
know there are worse things out there....but I have NEVER previously had ANY issues with my bum for 52 years, so it's all very raw and new to me and it is doing my head in!! I got onto a top CRS 3 weeks in............he said "you have a small, garden variety fissure, but located at 3 o'clock".
Apparently most if not all are located at 12 or 6 o'clock............so this has me thinking that maybe it is a rectal ulcer instead. But the CRS doesn't think so. Two weird things though.........I have NO bleeding whatsoever...and although I have to strain to get things going, I don't get the horrendous sharp pain that a lot of you report. I tend to have virtually no symptoms overnight and on waking of a morn, just a subtle dull presence that escalates once I start to move around. The most depressing part is that I am fit and have always jogged or gone to gym...........now it's just walking and swimming. Now, naturally I was told to try the Rectogesic Nitro cream - not sure if it is helping 2 1/2 weeks in - and now I am 2 days into a Wheatgrass Superbalm that is meant to be a miracle cure for AF - not sure if that has had an effect but it is early days. (Anyone heard of this?...............Google 'Dr. Wheatgrass'....it is an Australian product - (I'm an Aussie). I guess the crux of my posting here is that, when you Google info on AF, it is described as "a tear, or an open ulcer". Isn't there a difference here?? If so, does LIS work
on "ulcers" as well as it does on fissures?? Just putting some thoughts out there guys. Sorry for the long winded and wordy post..........but I think this support forum is a blessing for us all and good on the kind soul, whoever you are for setting this upjavascript:emoticonp('')
I shall try and check in every so often.......but I am trying to minimize the amount of time spent sitting on my donut cushion at the computer!!