Hi,
I got a fissure a month after giving birth, had it for 2 months on and off, finally reallized what it was, started to do sitz baths, diets etc. and have been pain and bleeding free for 3 weeks now. I went to a specialist and he even said it had healed. I still kept my diet exactly the same just to give it some more time to heal.
BUT, this morning I had a BM, not particularly big or anthing I haven't been able to pass during the last 3 weeks, maybe a bit firmer...but I felt that terrible, terrible ripping feeling in a new spot!!! and then some blood on toilet paper. I'm sooooo frustrated!!!
Why did this happen????? The only thing I can say might have been slightly different this morning is that my muscles in my guts felt like they expelled the BM a touch more violently than at other times. Could this have done it??? Also, I have noticed that on saturdays, my BMs are at their firmest and biggest...previously when I was fighting my other fissure, saturday was my re-tearing day. Is this odd? I'm starting to wonder if it is hormones as I am still breastfeeding. Or did the birth just change my sphincter and it's now smaller or traumatised somehow?? Or did the birth or breastfeeding change the skin down there so that it's thinner or less elastic??? I'm sooooo over this now. Can't believe it's happening again!!!
Oh, well, thanks for listening. I guess I just have to keep working on this new fissure and consider whether I should give up breastfeeding and see if that makes a difference. Any insight from you guys would be good....