Hi all,
Well today's been a bad pain day and through the tears in my desperate attempt to find some advice I stumbled on this forum. I was told I had an AF just before Christmas, was advised on starting a high fibre diet and to drink plenty of water and prescribed Rectogesic. I never used the Rectogesic and had a month or so pain free (guess it might have been healing?) and thought all was well, however in the past few weeks its been as bad as ever. Booked another appointment with my GP next week. Although the dr diagnosed me only 3.5 mths ago this is a problem I've had for many years, but foolishly was always too embarrassed to go to the dr about it. At first I suffered the symptoms I have now once a year maybe, then it was a couple of times a year, then every couple of months until last year when I was in pain more often than I was pain free and that's what finally drove me to seek professional help. If only I'd gone sooner! I seem to go in cycles of denial - whenever I'm pain free I stupidly think "phew! its over!" I've read a few posts in various threads on this board and its good to know in a way that other people understand just how painful an AF is - too scared to poop sometimes! I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy...