by Abu » 08 Dec 2014, 08:29
Hello everybody,
my name is Alex and i live in Romania. I developed a fissure 3 months ago after a hard bowel movement, caused by antibiotics and pain killers which I was administered after an inguinal hernia surgery.
The first 4 days was unbelievably painful (for me), although I reckon not like other people experienced, based on their explanations. I was thinking that I cannot live such a life if i was going to endure these pains.
After 10 days of applying nifidepine cream and drinking laxative tea i was completely cured - I was soooo happy. For two weeks that is... when it came back, caused by a somewhat harder stool. But this time the pain allowed me to sleep through the night, so it was definitely lighter.
the problem is that during those two weeks, i stopped applying any cream, thinking I do not need it anymore. back to the doc and she recommended nitroglycerin this time. I started with this and after another two weeks I was also feeling perfect. Again, i stopped applying the cream for something like 10 days when the problem, you guessed it, re-occurred. This time, the pain was even less than before. Now I ordered DrWheatgrass cream and started on this one, on my own. Also for 2 weeks after which the pain was back. this time, even less pain than before. Two weeks ago my doc said we will try with nytroglicerin for another 2 weeks and if no success, she will have to remove something which developed inside, i have no idea how it is called. But not the sentinel pile, some cartilage. The pile is very small, less than 5mm, so I am not talking about this. When I heard I said to myself: I need another opinion - so i went to another doctor today. She told me that my fissure started to develop some hard margins, but not to the point where it could not respond to creams anymore. Also she said, if it doesn't improve in a week i will have to have that cartilage removed so i have a fresh wound.
i forgot to say that all this time I kept on trying to keep stools soft with various methods, but it was enough to have just a slightly harder one to start bleeding again.
Today, my level of pain varies between 0 (when I have soft BM) and 2 when the fissure gets upset due to a very slightly harder BM.
That being said, what are your suggestions? I am scared to allow them to cut that cartilage inside my anus because i fear that the pain will be much worse than it is today. on the other hand, i do not want to live with the fear of the fissure re-opening all my life and enduring the pains when it does.
i apologize for the long post, it is my first on this forum. thanks for the help.