Food - I am starving following a special diet

its not the food. its the bowl movements themselves the keep the fissures going (I'm dealing with them now) but soft foods mixed with stool softners (and me personally not eating for days) has helped). i don't recommend the not eating part to avoid other issues. i hear betadine solution helps promote healing as well. since the dr's can't help unless i pay a HUGE fee to feel human again, i do the following to maintain:

1. keep the area clean
2. sit in warm baths (try to sit at least) or take long hot showers
3. use wet wipes like peperation h instead of toilet paper
4. soft foods
5. stool softers
6. try walking to loosen the muscles down there
7. minimalize sitting (lay down or stand/walk)
8. lay on your side when you can

this stuff is no joke and I've tried to commit suicide three times cause of it so i feel your pain. im going on five years in August with this so yeah it sucks. not sure why we were chosen, but we can get through it, you CAN get through this. which is what I'd like to hear while going through this but I'll tell you if no one else will. YOU got this. don't let it defeat you.

u can eat wt u want but also take stool softner tht day. .and drink lots of water .

you don't need to starve! there's plenty of fissure friendly foods you can eat such as brown rice, whole grain bread, wholegrain cereal e.g. weetabix, salads, fish, chicken, sweet potato etc. you can also eat a less strict diet by using a stool softener such as magnesium citrate.

I treat this condition as though it's an allergy. Through trial and error and recording bad reactions I know I cannot eat foods that would be considered very high fibre such as popcorn, seeds, most nuts etc. Basically anything that has sharp edges to it that seem to scrape my insides. Everyone is different. I can eat mostly anything else. I drink lots of water, eat other softer fibre and take magnesium citrate to keep my stool soft.

I have been writing to anyone about my mis-diagnose... I was told that I had a fissure a year ago.

I had all the symptoms and I was in extreme pain. I went to other doctors and no one examined me. I went to gastro and he said he thought I had a thrombosed hemmoroid. The colon surgeon said, no, it is a fissure and told me not to get a colonoscopy. So I canceled it. Last week I was determined to get a colonoscopy and my results were bad. I had rectal cancer, which no doctor caught. I now have to go through radiation, chemo and surgery. I urge everyone to get a colonoscopy to make sure. A year ago my story may have been different. I'm not telling you this to scare you, just to get you all to make sure it is a fissure.