Hi, I've been a lurker around here for a while now.
I've had an anal fissure for at least 16 months now, and I had a botox injection on my nearly healed fissure (the consultant said so but went ahead with botox anyway due to re-occurrence) two weeks ago, however, it is now the worst it has ever been in the whole time I've had it.
I used to be able to cope somewhat with the pain and it would always eventually go after a 30 minutes or so, but now I've spent 6/7 nights in the last week having to take so much pain medication and use ice packs with no relief. It keeps swelling up quite badly in the area, and eventually calming down by morning, and until my next BM. There's horrible bleeding and a tearing sensation every time I go.
I wanted to ask if anyone else had a similar experience? I don't know what's meant to actually happen with the botox injection, I don't know if this is normal and it'll eventually settle down, it's one of those things that gets worse before it gets better, or what. I believe the botox has kicked in as I have mild flatulence incontinence.
This is pretty traumatic for myself, I was hoping this was the end of the ordeal, especially as it was starting to feel a lot better before the botox.