Upcoming hospital appointment for fissures

Hi Sparklypickle, Well anal fissures are on the outside near your anus. When i had my exam from my surgeon, all you have to do is bend over with your pants down above you knees and lean over, the doctor opens and does not stick anything in there. Just looks on the outside of your anal area and he can see it from there. He does not have to enter anything inside. If you are on your period , no worries. He is looking at the anal area only. You can tell the medical assistants that you are on your period if at that time you are. It's ok. Doctor will still do the check up. And trust me, Just think of it this way, You are tired of this pain and want to do something about it. 8 hours of pain or everyday of pain for only one moment of a check up is worth it. I had an anal fissure for 3-years...tried everything. I just had surgery 3-weeks ago. So relieved about it. Im still healing, but happy that this pain might finally be over. -Good Luck

Hello

I read your post.  I've been dealing with this fissure now for about a month.  I've been to my doctor and he has me on a cream to help heal this thing.  About a week after starting on this I felt so much better...no blood...no more cutting glass pain and then BOOM here I go again...the pain...the blood..  I AM SICK of this.  I go back to the doctor in a couple of weeks. Not sure what he will want to do next.  I am scared of the surgery. 

Thank you for your reply.  I was really glad to find this site to be able to talk about my very private problem.  Support means so much when you are in pain and wondering what everyone else is going through.  I am still hopeful that I will heal before going back to the doctor.  I know my chances are 50/50 but, I remain very positive and hopeful.  I have dealt with this since the birth of my daughter in 1987.  Back in '87 I was given and agreed to a experimental suppository that worked.  I hadn't had any issues until mid '90's and then a few issues on and off since then.  I could go for a couple of years with no problem and then BOOM it shows it's ugly self.  This time around it is not healing as fast as it used to.  I completely changed my diet and have lost 14 pounds since my issue came about 3 weeks ago.  I plan to stay on my new life style change so in hopes this will heal and never return.  We'll see! 

I had my appointment today. Amazingly my cycle was short last month so no worries about that (phew!). The surgeon I saw was really great, he opened our conversation with "rumour has it, you've got a sore bum!" hehe, he listened to my history, etc then did a quick examination and I was delighted to hear that the reason why if had a lot less discomfort these last few weeks is because my fissure has healed itself! Hurrah!! He gave me some different cream called dilatazam saying lots of people who use it get a bit sore and rash, but to continue unless it gets really bad, if the fissure recurs and cream doesn't fix it, I'll get botox injections because the surgeon said he wouldn't operate on me because I'm a young woman. All in all not such a traumatic experience