So the last while has been bad with lots of irritation down there, sometimes pain, sometimes a mixture of deep burning like a hot object is trapped in the opening. I continue Diltiazem but so far it's done nothing for me and actually stings for a few minutes when I apply it.

Anyways walked home from work today, it's a good 40 minutes....a few minutes in I could feel like something was moving in my butt, yes like wiggling in there, it was so uncomfortable and unnerving. I stopped for a few minutes, just so frustrated, I want my life back. Was it a hemmerhoid moving in there? My crs 2 weeks ago saw cracks on the outside and just inside, but couldn't check inside for hemmerhoids because I was just too inflamed.

Hi Hurtinend, this happened to me for a few months. Initially I was almost crawling to work (it's about 1.5 miles). I even asked my employer if I could get a temporary parking permit, since I didn't want to pay for a whole year. They said even if I got a handicapped permit, I'd have to pay the full year. Ridiculous!

However, after a while there was not so much pain, but discomfort. Quite severe discomfort mind you (deep burning describes it), but an improvement. Then a long time when I'd get those wiggly wormy feelings you describe, and a bit of discomfort.

Gradually things improved. I was able to walk at my normal pace again. It took a long time, but I did get there. Hopefully you will too.

The really strange thing was that the morning walk was horrible, but the walk home was usually perfectly fine. I will never understand the weirdness of fissure pain. Especially those wiggly wormy feelings. What was that about? but they went away eventually.

Hugs to you!

Thanks so much this is crazy stuff? Made we wonder if I have hemmies up there too, who knows. Today I itch more than burn, it's all so bizarre with no real definitive path.

Yes employers and parking.......forget it, can't win that one.

Hurtin....i know the feeling well....like a worm wiggling inside your butt....i have often wondered what was there. Sometimes those feelings fade, sometimes they take center stage. The "recovery" process is a bizarre winding road with many switchbacks and dead ends....lets hope that we are both moving in the right direction overall. I know how awful these feelings and the overall experience is....i really hope it only gets better (for both of us!!)

I never got this! but walking home from work used to cause me agony, as if i had a pad of acid against my sphincter. it just felt like 100s of papercuts opening with each step... pure hell.

Yes, agree with you all here. The Diltiazem I take has lidocaine in it, but the lidocaine does absolutely nothing for the irritating pain and burning down there. I don't like the idea of putting painkiller on my butt.

I see the crs on Tuesday so I will tell him this, but he just didn't seem very helpful based on my last visit. I am getting depressed and have not been eating as well lately, although I still take my flax seed, slippery elm and aloe juice to keep my bm soft, which it is. As I shift diets around, I really wonder if diet has much do with the overall condition.

Will keep you all posted, I am considering doing a semi fast for 1 week, but not sure how I'm going to do it yet, research, research.