by jqt » 27 Sep 2015, 18:13
Yes, I am a 'new" member here, but by gosh, I've been reading this site, among so many others, for a few YEARS now. I am fifty-seven year-old male, who was very active just a few years ago. Ten years ago, I had pain from ostensibly a fissure, which did heal. But in 2013, the fissure returned with a vengeance. In addition to the two years of pain from the chronic fissure, I have also had a miserable summer, with what seemed like a UTI infection (which thankfully, seems to have passed) along with a feeling of a bloated abdomen, distended feeling in the gut, and for months now, profuse sweating. I have had a colonoscopy, and then a sigmoidoscopy, and four different colo-rectal surgeons all offer their opinions, along with the patience of my Primary Doctor, as I have tried Nitroglycerin, Nifedipine, etc., but this latest symptom of severe sweating has me very concerned. I cannot sit without pain for about two years now, and since last Spring, the abdomimal symptoms, along with the sweating, began. Prior to this, I have been disabled for forty-three years now with Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia, a facial nerve pain, so in a sense, I am used to dealing with pain and with doctors. It's astonishing how dibilitating this anal fissure problem can be, since I do have access to pain medications, but really, none of these help the fissure pain. I do have Levator Ani Spams that do respond to Baclofen, so I have found partial relief to the spasms, but I still cannot sit normally without pain for two years now, and it's driving me toward madness. And once the severe sweating began this Spring, it seemed like my entire life was over. I cannot go out, even if it's 65 deg F or higher, with a shirt on, without sweating uncomfortably. I even obtained special "breathable" Merino Wool shirts to wear, but to no avail. I am miserable, facing a possible Sphincterotomy LIS procedure, but I also feel that currently, I may be too ill to even undergo the surgery. No doctor, of the dozen or more that I have seen, seems to understand what I am going through, or can offer any ideas to explain all of my symptoms. For five or six years now, I have very slow healing wounds, and I've also had rashes and similar afflictions that are just uncharacteristic of how I was in the past. I am still able to walk and function, as long as I stay inside with AC on, but this is no life. Can anyone relate to any of this?