Positive story re botox and healing
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Hi everyone.
I've lurked here a bit but joined just to post this message as I know how hard it is to find and feel hope when suffering with an anal fissure. I'm now almost 7 months post botox (first and only time) and my fissure healed shortly after and has not reopened since. I experience a bit of discomfort every time I poo, and I've had a bit of bleeding from the scar tissue, but this is nothing compared to the searing pain I had every day for 6 months before botox*. I still eat a high fibre diet, drink lots of water and take movicol (also known as laxido and cosmocol) and fybogel each twice a day.
I think the movicol has also played a huge part in my healing. Before that I was on lactulose, docusate and fybogel but movicol is the only one laxative that works well and consistently for me. I heard about it from this forum, so thank you to whoever has posted about it! For UK based people, you can ask your GP to give it to you on prescription. I now have both laxatives on prescription and use the 12 months prescription certificate to keep costs down - lord knows I feel punished enough already.
Taking four laxatives a day definitely affects how confident I feel going about daily life, but I'm hoping at some point I can reduce them. My GP said it'll be at least a year before I can have a "bad day" (ie hard stools) and it not reopen the fissure, and that my whole life will likely be either trying to prevent one or heal one. It obviously sucks, but I've moved to a mindset of long term management, and am just so glad not feel like I'm sh*tting glass anymore and to be barely leaving the house!
Anyway, just wanted to share in the hope that someone else may feel a shred of optimism that things will get better. I certainly didn't believe they would.
*NB the pain was pretty bad in the first couple of weeks post-botox but after this it was SO much better.
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paula69757 catherine91280
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Hi Catherine, not sure if you still check this thread, but wanted to say thanks for your post. I've had an anal fissure (well 2 apparently it turns out) for 4 weeks and had investigation and botox injection under anaesthetic yesterday. I honestly don't know how you managed for 6 months, this thing has got me down unbelievably in just a few weeks and after just a few days off passing what felt like razor blades i was like, right, time to see the dr! They gave me GTN (Rectogesic) and then through the help of reading forums like this one I added coconut oil, vaseline and H Fissure oil. My consolidation yesterday I have 2 fissures (great) and I think I also had a sentinel pile that he has removed. Feeling sore, but not too bad, however living in trepidation of the first BM. We shall see. I am hoping this works, but again wanted to thank you for sharing your positive experience as it helps people like me have hope. Paula x
Jane000000000 catherine91280
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hi, it is food to hear a positive story about botox.
I just wondered whether you had the botox under general anaesthetic? Or without?
I'm 2 years into a fissure that comes and goes, but over last 6 months progressively worse. Ive experienced pain like nothing Ive felt before recently.
On diltiazam now, after GTN stopped working. Consultant will do botox if diltiazem doesnt work but wants me to give it longer.
But I can feel it getting worse again and im due to start a new job next week and Im in such a panic worrying about coping with the pain and learning new job.
Anyway, just wondered how you found the botox injections being done if you didnt opt for general anaesthetic?
Thanks!