I've been dealing with fissures & hemorrhoids off and on for awhile now. I seem to be mostly ok for a while then suddenly I'l have a BM with blood on tissue & it freaks me out, usually comes from nowhere. But then it can go away as quickly as it came again. It's always bright red blood, on tissue, and just immediately after stool comes out. The CRS told me he saw a fissure outside & skin tags. So the blood would come from the fissure, according to him. So why does it come and go? Also, unlike the first time I had a fissure, I don't ever have any sharp pain with BM. Sometimes I do, but nothing much noticeable. I did have a VERY painful thrombosed hemorrhoid last November though, but apparently that's healed up. The skin tags outside the anus are still quite prominent though, not painful. They just hang there pretty much. So do hemorrhoids usually come and go like that? And is it possible to have a fissure and it not be painful?
I use Nifed/Lido regularly along with Colace and Dulcolace (my savior). I don't like to depend on them so much but if I didn't I'd have hard BMs too often & it wouldn't be good. I'm trying to avoid surgery if I can because I know sometimes that can be worse.
Last night, I got this dull achey feeling from inside my lower anus, almost a throbbing. This morning, I had a BM & it wasn't painful but I did have bright red blood on paper again. Didn't last long just right after. And the throbbing ceased. Could this have been something inside that popped or something? I had a colonoscopy two years ago, aren't they good for 5-10?
I'm just debating what to do about my skin tags/fissure. My wish is to put it off as long as I can, but if I have to have surgery eventually so be it, but just not in any much pain really the only symptom when I have any is the bright red blood spotting/globs on tissue after BM, and it's not every BM, just once in awhile. So I'm as confused about what to do as ever.
What should I do? The CRS told me I could have the surgery and he could fix things, because it seems to be a regular pattern of ebb and flow as far as symptoms, but even after I go a long time, sometimes months, with no blood, then suddenly see some, but then it goes away again, it weirds me out. I'd like to avoid surgery if I can. Just wrestling with what do to.
Im not worried about cancer or anything because I had a colonoscopy two years ago, and had a polyp removed then that was bleeding, but aren't those procedures good for many years after before another is needed? And I also had an anal pap test last summer, which was normal.