Anal Fissure will not heal (it's been a month)

I'm going to try and keep it short. What helped me cure my hemorrhoids was 35% food grade peroxide. I kid you not. I had this external hemorrhoid on the side towards my man parts and a fissure that was the size of a dime that hurt like a b*tch! i have tried lots of home remedies most worked as far as relief from the itching. But the peroxide was the fastest and most effective. I had kinda gave up on finding something to help me cure those little suckers. How i started using peroxide is i had a infection in my lungs and seen that i could inhale it to kill the infection. that worked but it too a little longer because i wasn't using the spray in large quantities. ANYWHO! How i got rid of my hemorrhoids and fissures. With an eye dropper, 20 drops of 35% in 18 ounces of distilled water. I drank 3 of those a day for 3 days. You may need to work you way up to that point. It bothered my stomach only when i didn't eat with the peroxide. I have also notice that my hemorrhoids are gone for good as long as i stay away from the fast foods. Primarily any type of burger from a fast food chain....it must have something to do with the beef.  sorry if you cant understand but if would like for me to explain in greater detail i can if you ask for an email.

it is 2014 oct 26 , i am suffering from fissure pain after  a hard poop three days back , was constipated , ate meat a lot last week , this time it is unbearable even i can not walk as tearing is i think either so deep or large , i can not touch my anus :'( . and in 2012 i had my LIS with close technique in one of best hospital in Pakistan but never able to heal fully , but after LIS , pressure and pain was very less as compare to my struggle from 2010 to 2012 jan before LIS surgery . it all started with a hard poop in 2010 . i suffered this a long story , i tried everything but in vein than finally decided surgery and yet suffering , and 3 days back the thing that made is worst as i developed new fissure and it is anterior my last one that i suffered and still suffering is located posterior . i was reading this forum today and i am laughing and crying all , all things and remedies here people wrote do not work on longer base . now i am not interested to write a lot but still finding remedies , after first painful poop in 2010 i tried my best even i was in hostel with no home facilities , i never let  myslef constipated a whole year , my dr at that time said it is likely to heal 90% , gtn failed many times , but my regret is after LIS which is gold stranded i  am again using gtn now :'(

Hi Healthy Girl,

Have you tried witch hazel cream? You can also practice preventive measures versus constipation like, consuming daily serving of fibers, so to make your stool moist and loose, making it easier to remove. You can also try taking herbal medication like ginger, it can help alleviate the pain your anal fissure is causing you. Hope this helps. Get better soon. :)

I am so thankful to this forum. I read a few tips today that I tried right away and I feel soooo much better already. I think I am doing okay re constipation -- as many of you noted, quit red meat right away. unfortunately, I also had to quick beans and lentils because it was making my stool too big. So I am taking one Colace in the morning, drinking lots of water, eating fruits, veg, chicken fish. that's about it.

The tips I read that are working for me are:  1) after pooping, soak in sitz bath with epsom salts, 2) mix together Neosporin and Recticare and apply, 3) put a gauze pad on. At work I have been putting the neosporin and the recticare right on the pad and putting it on. Yes it is like I am carrying a first aid kit in my pocketbook, but who cares! This is the first day without that dreadful dreadful pain in quite awhile. The posts really helped me to start treating it like a wound. Even a paper cut hurts without neosporin so why wouldn't this??!! I think the gauze is helping immensely so, as someone mentioned, skin is not touching skin.

thank you all so much and I wish all of us the best. no one can understand this if they haven't experienced it, how hard it is to work and drive or even just think!!! I am truly humbled and horrified by this experience.

Hi Healthygirl! I was just wondering how things are and if you've found a good solution for you yet. I've basically been dealing with the same problem for the last 3 months after a hard stool, and for a long time, it seemed like almost nothing helped. However, just recently, I noticed that if I had bowel movements approximately every 8-10 hours, that the stool would be close to something like soft-served ice cream (which from what I've read from someone else, is the kind of stool you want), and it would not re-tear any of the fissures (I have like 4 or 5 or so just around the outside of the hole of the anus). Doing this, coupled with using Baby Wipes that contained Aloe and Vitamin E and that contained no alcohol and no fragrance (as those would irritate the fissure), seems to be helping me the most. For the most part, my fissures don't seem to tear, but I sometimes do experience slight burning sensations that last maybe 30 seconds to a minute. I know spices can cause that, and perhaps some acidic foods, so I need to watch out for those.

Another thing that seemed to help is using small square band-aids that I would carefully place over the fissures, so that when the stool rubs up against it, it'll scrape up against the band-aid. However, using band-aids has it's downsides, too, because if you have lots of hair around that area, it'll pull on some of it when you try to remove the band-aid! Ouch! Also, one has to be very careful that when one places the band-aid over the fissure, that they don't accidentally block the hole where the stool comes out. I had to use a long vertical mirror and a flashlight and get into a really awkward position, just to be able to see exactly where my fissures are so that I can put band-aids on them before a bowel movement.

Anyway, hope things are lookin' better for you! ^.^

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Hi, I am 64 and have had this fissure for over a year. Last  summer was spent on th sofa. The pain was really bad. The ONLY thing that helped was hot baths..  NOT warm ..hot...  Finaly I told the surgeon ''  Operate''  Best decision ever made..  Fissure is stil there but healing slowly. Pain is manageble. DO NOT HESITATE if fissure is not healing.. Sphinterectomy is the way to go...

listen dear i am sending you help tip pass it to others and you will b healed fully. - eat desi ghee in large amounts it is a sure shot healer and will cure it. but eat 10- 15 gms daily. if u r not a heart patient. - do ashwini mudra ( see on internet)after passing stool everytime. - very important when you wipe ur anus wipe it with your urine. believe me it will cure ur problem. - and before sleeping apply jatyadi oil( can b found un any ayurveduc shop) with finger or thin feeding tube inside anus but make ur anus good wet from inside with that oil. - remember to take ginger every alternate day in ur meals. follow these and see the results urself.

Went to ER for pain. Found out had anal fissure. Was prescribed lidocaine jelly for numbing this tear in anal tissue which is very painful. Don't take warm or hot baths as this doesn't reduce inflammation. Use cold. Also use miralax to put water in your stool for easy passing. Don't wait to see a Dr

Hi everyone, this may sound strange at first but please try heat packs to stop the pain. I'm a 34 year old male who was suffering from 2 fissures for about 10 months. I got them from a botched banding procedure. The best thing you can use to stop the pain, in addition to diet change, is Heat packs. Really, heat packs. I was in so much endless pain from the fissures until I found relief by using heat packs. Take a heat pack, one of those ones filled with silicon beads that you heat in the microwave for a few minutes that then stay warm for about 40 minutes or so. You can find them at most pharmacies.

Gently press the heat pack directly up against your anus and keep it there, the heat forces the muscle to relax and stops the spasms, which stops the pain caused by the fissure. You can use a hot water bottle too as long as you can mold it to place up against your anus. Seriously. This saved me from so much endless fissure pain, it's like a concentrated hot bath focused directly where you need it, but without the inconvenience of running a bath and being stuck in a bath just to get relief. (I know baths are nice and all but not really always practical or accessible)

Best position is to lie on your back in bed, put your knees up like you’re going to do a sit up and then place the heat pack between your legs right up against your bum hole. Sorry for the graphic image but I can't really think of another way to describe it. Just be careful not to burn yourself, you want the heat pack/heat bag or hot water bottle to be hot but not so hot you burn your skin. It helps to wrap it in a pillow case that's soft and then if your heat pack is too hot, wrap it in more layers of the pillow case, which will protect you a bit more if it's too hot at first.

Before the heat packs I was taking dangerous amounts of pain meds to deal with the fissure pain which for me was all the time, including during the nights which were really hard... until I discovered the heat pack. Which thank God I did because they really work. Please try them, I understand this might seem silly and I haven't read it anywhere else but I know the suffering from fissures and this will help keep the pain at bay. Seriously, heat packs, heat bags or a hot water bottle pressed lightly up against your anus and held there, keep it held there and it will work. I sometimes keep it there for 15 minutes or more and then I take it off. Then when the pain starts up again I'll put it back and the muscle relaxes and the pain go's.

Try it. I had tried everything from which hazel oil in my bum to manuka honey in my bum (my wife called me sweet cheeks because of the honey), but the best thing to stop the pain has been the heat packs. Heat relaxes the muscle, stopping the spasm and the pain.

Ultimately though you want to find a solution to heal the fissure once and for all so I suggest the surgery. I've had Botox and that did not work, in fact I was in a lot of pain afterwards, then I got the fissurectomy/sphincterectomy combo surgery and I am finally free from it all. I know it sounds nuts to get a surgical cut to fix a fissure but it’s the sure way to fix it. Conservative methods like Botox and Rectogesic Ointment did not work for me, in the end only surgery worked. I wish I had done the surgery first cause I went through months of pain and hopelessness that I could have avoided had I just done the surgery first.

Though very important, make sure you research and choose a reputable specialist to perform the surgery. Don’t just go with anyone, find and choose the best that you can cause for me it was the 3rd specialist that ended up fixing me with the fissurectomy/sphincterectomy. The first specialist caused the problem, the second specialist didn’t help and made my pain seem trivial until finally I researched and found the best in my area and he, the 3rd guy fixed me. So it’s worth it, pay a little more, travel a little farther if you have to but see the best that you can or at the very least someone with a lot of experience with exactly that surgery. If you’re in Sydney Australia then the Prince of Whales private hospitals “Sydney Colorectal Associates” really have a great team; Dr. Newstead fixed me and I am so thankful for him but he’s part of a group of several specialists there that all seem good.

Until then though heat pads, use heat pads to relieve the pain.

I’ve come on here to give people this info to help but sorry I don’t think I’ll come back to follow up cause honestly I just want to move on with things, so please take the advice above and save yourself pain and anguish.

Diet, Heat pads then surgery.

THANK YOU so much for your post! You would not believe how much your post helped me - it was really a Godsend and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. After weeks and weeks of unreal pain and countless applications of creams (Nitroglycerin, Hydrocortisone, Recticare, etc.), I took your great advice and started using Aquaphor and the results were just AMAZING for me. I really feel for all posters on this forum - because having an anal fissure is hands down the most painful event of my entire life (& I have gone through kidney stones and a had a painful gallbladder removed as well). Thanks again!

Hi everyone. I've been suffering from an anal fissure for the past week. It first started off as hemorrhoids but I developed a fissure due to straining because of constipation and very hard & dry stool. The process is very painful and has had me screaming my head off and crying while on the toilet. I went to visit the doctor 4 days ago and was prescribed with 5 types of medication. I do not live in the US so I guess the meds are a bit different. I have pills called Doxium for the hemorrhoids and healing, I was also prescribed an anal cream - Procto-Glyvenol - and also use Protocol which I was prescribed last year for hemorrhoids. I also use other ointments, so I don't overdo the medicated ones, to keep the area from drying. I was also prescribed Kortos suppository which I place in every night - it is a very painful process and I'm not sure it's helping a lot. I was also prescribed a laxative which literally turns stool into water. This helps as I have noticed that my anus is very, very tight at the moment and I would not be able to have any bowel movements without straining. And a painkiller which seems to work better than the ones I tried before. It is day 4 of all my meds and the pain and bleeding has reduced significantly. The things which I have found to help are: placing an ice cube on the anus after a bowel movement to numb the pain. The next one is not very pleasant but it helps a lot - if I had luck on the toilet I wouldn't have this problem anyway - squatting over a small bucket in the shower under very warm water when I have a BM. The squatting helps me not to strain too much and the hot water helps the pain - I nearly don't any pain at all. I stay under the hot water for a while after I finish and if the pain continues after I get out I use a cream and put an ice cube on the area for a while. I hope this helps... It is a very painful and lonely process :(

Yes, I don't have a microwave so I just heat a pot, cover it with a towel and sit on it (my grandma recommended it). Heat really helps.

I can totally relate to your situation. I also have tried not to eat, because whatever goes in will have to come out and that pain, especially at first, almost made me pass out. The exam was also excruciating, but I know it was because I am so swollen. I have found relief in the hottest bath possible, even spraying the hot shower on me. For some reason the hot water does not hurt. I am using the Cardizem gel and smearing it all over me, without understanding how it can work, because I am desperate. I had recently been on a high protein, low carb diet to lose weight. I lost weight - 3o pounds but also developed this horrible predicament. I am going to heal!

Sounds like you are doing well, finding what works for you is key! On my first couple of days after the fissure, I froze a huge piece of gingerroot, wrapped it in a cloth and laid down with it on the whole area. It sounds crazy but it was just the right thing for some relief. It is a week today for me since I saw the doctor. Today I am putting a massager on my lower back area because I read about some old edgar Cayce recommendations for hemorrhoids and anal fissure and he recommended lower back massage to bring blood to the area for healing. I'll try anything right now. I cannot live like I have this past week. I am only taking Tylenol for pain, but around the clock. It helps a little. I have to work, and it helps to keep me distracted. Meals, eating and bathroom trips.....At home I take a hot bath after each bm. I am taking Miralax daily and trying to increase fiber with cereals and benefiber. I told my whole family what was going on , I need their support. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.