Hello all,
You can find my story in my old posts - in this case a happy one!, but to summarize:
had fissure 10 years ago, had a recurrence 6 months ago which sent me to 3 months of pain and agony. Healed with conservative treatment (isosorbide dinitrate, a medicine from the nifedipine/diltiazem family), was back to 100% normal, then bleeding was back but with moderate to little pain.
I posted a few weeks ago about my setback of blood and some pain, and back then the CRS and I thought it was likely internal hemorrhoids along with levator ani syndrome. Well, to make the story short, I got well enough for a full anoscopy without anesthesia and she did it (it didn't hurt at all actually)... the result?
*Nothing*
Fully Healed fissure, and just small internal hemorrhoids. She didn't want to do anything to the hemorrhoids because they were too small to bother - actually she said "we could band the entire state since nobody is completely free of hemorrhoid problems, so it's not worth it unless it's bad"
She did see that my skin was "raw" and "bloody" and basically said that my problem was relatively simple - severe irritation from using the vasodilators for too long, since I kept using it for several weeks after my fissure was healed. She said that moisture and the medicine itself can make the skin irritated and very prone to bleeding, and that was the case with me, since effectively I had been using vasodilators on the area for almost 5 months non stop.
I stopped everything with the exception of a tiny cotton ball to remove moisture from the area, and the irritation got much better - it's not gone for good (although last week was blood, itch, burning and pain free), since I still feel the occasional burning post BM, and the area can get tender and a bit swollen, but it seems to be on the right track for healing.
Anyone experienced this? She didn't give me a time frame for healing but she said it WOULD heal. I read online that this kind of irritation can actually take quite a few weeks to completely go away, but I'd be curious to hear if anything went through this after the fissure was healed.