Hi all,
I have been suffering from what my doctor thinks is an anal fissure for about 6 months now. I'm thinking about going back to see if I can get a colonoscopy to see if it's anything more serious. I want to know whether my symptoms sound like and AF to you:
I wake up around 8 each morning an feel absolutely fine.
I have a bowel movement once a day, every day before 10. The BM itself is completely painless. For the next hour or two I don't have any symptoms.
I then begin to get sharp, intense pain in my anus. The pain is shooting and comes and goes. I presume this is caused my muscle spasms that everyone here talks about. It's sometimes quite itchy. A bath helps to relieve the intensity of these sharp pains. It's not as bad when sitting/lying down.
The pain is at its worst around lunchtime but slowly begins to dissipate over the late afternoon. By the evening time the sharp pain has normally disappeared although I'm sometimes left with more of a dull ache. This ache feels to be more to my left hand side of my anus, radiating outward so I can sometimes feel it down my groin/back of leg.
By morning time this sharp pain/dull ache is completely gone and I feel 100 % again. After my BM, the whole process is repeated.
There has been blood 3 time but non in the last 3 months. Each time this happened, I had particular intense pain a number of hours after my BM and had to wipe with tissue to relieve the itchiness/pain. There was a slight bit of light red blood on the tissue.
I've been given a second does of rectogesic but the headaches can be as bad as the anal pain.