Oh dear god, because of this healthy Fissure Diet I wasting away! Going under 8stone, bones everywhere! What can I eat that will put weight back on? Obviously something that will be friendly to my bottom, I need bulk!
I don't want to take protein because that would bulk up stools more?
Helpppppp. I might waste away in the next few weeks........

Me too. i've gone from 112lb's to 101 in maybe 3 monthes :( I'm trying some of those Boost protein drinks, they have some fiber in them. Unsure if sold in the UK. I go to my GI tomorrow and'll see if my weight has changed more.

Yeah guys, we've all been there. Scared to eat, or not eating because of that dreaded trip to the "Throne".
So what I did was simply pre-lubricate very well with petroleum jelly before any bm. Even if I had to go in public I still carried my jelly with me.
Dont be afraid to work that jelly way up in that canal where your fissure is. It will definitely help prevent re-tears and help on pushing out those harder stools through that last "construction area" we happen to call fissures.
Eat, its a catch-22 I know, but even your fissures needs some nutrients to heal. I have used those protein powders for a long time without any bulky stools.
Also cereal which is highly fortified may be a good balance any time of the day.
Keep searching, my solutions did not come until after about two decades before I squashed my fissures.
When things really were uncomfortable for my butt, I would go on a liquid diet, just to give my fissures a fighting chance to heal. Even calories in the form of liquids can add pounds to you.
Don't forget about your stool softeners. Good luck.

Thankyou, I will try the drinks. I am lubricating pre BM. This does help! It is the pain afterwards!
I am on Dilt, but when I have the Botox I may do the blending liquid diet. I would give my right arm now to kick these fissures!
Very interesting how you got rid of yours. Were they chronic?

I'm a little suspicious that part of my weight loss is due to the miralax :/ I think my body isn't absorbing as much from it. Plus fiberous foods are low in calories. Gahhh

Ah yes, could be! I am getting plenty of food, it is too healthy and non fattening! I don't want to go out as people think I look ill. So frustrating!
Steak... Choccie yum. Grrr

Oh... If I had a pound for everyone that tells me how ill I look and that I should eat more... To which I reply... If you had a ripped bottom... Would you go around eating stodgy pizza??
I just try and add a good glug of olive oil and ground flax seeds to everything, especially my soup at lunchtime.
Just try. Not to worry about it.... Because worry makes the weight drop off too!!lol
OMB x

I definitely understand about the weight loss. I was about 120 pounds in December when this started and am now 98 pounds. My boyfriend hates it because I'm bony and have lost a lot of the fat in my butt (I'm a pear shape and store most of my fat there). It's definitely more uncomfortable sitting down, in more ways than one!
Anyway, I really don't have much good advice because I'm struggling with the weight loss too. I haven't found much that helps because I don't eat very much in general and most of the foods I eat are low in calories. I'm adding more juice to my diet for the calories and seeing if that helps. I also love olive oil, but I don't think it's helping with weight gain. Soft nuts are good (like pecans and walnuts), if you can tolerate them, for the extra calories. Just make sure you chew them up really well.
I've never been a big eater and people always remark how little I eat and how skinny I am. It's even worse now, so I totally understand. I just say I have acid reflux (which is true) and have to watch my diet very closely. I don't mention my fissure to anyone except close family and friends because 99% of people don't understand and it's too personal to bring up.

I'm in this club too at 98 pounds. But weight gain has been a problem my whole adult life, even before fissures, no matter how many calories I was eating a day. Fissures have just made things more difficult.

Chronic ???
You bet they were chronic Rachael. Seeing your from the UK you may view the term a little differently. But hell yeah, mine were definitely recurring, and definitely persistence for over 20 years.
I'd get one, a week or two later its gone.
In comes Mr. BM to introduce me to a toilet full of rocks. Yet another 2-3 weeks. Hello old fissures, say hello to your neighbor fissure. I almost started to give my fissures personal names (just kidding).
But this scenario went on for over two decades.
On a scale of 1-10 the pain level probably maxed out at a strong seven or a weak 8. On a discomfort level that same 1-10 scale would have broken many times over.
I've had the multiple fissures at once, I had the spasms, I hated sitting in public because I knew my squirming would attrack attention and people would chuckle...."he he", that guy must have some huge hemorrhoids the way hes squirming."
Although both my parents had hems I guess I was "lucky" to only inherit its evil twin. My father ultimately had surgery on his sphincter and my mom, looking back all I remember as a kid was always seeing Dulcolax suppositories laying around in the bathroom.
Your talking to someone who literally would take a nice warm shower after every bm just to relieve the burning, spasms, itching etc. How about walking around in public with Tucks medicated pads stuck up your butt to relieve the burning, did that for the longest.
Yikes, you just brought back the memories of my battles flooding into me like a wildfire. It was a nightmarish lifestyle (as we all know) battling these itty bitty slits that you wouldn't think can cause soooooo much discomfort.
Rachael, keep up the fight, were counting on you.