TMI!!! (The fissure that plagues me)

This post, and this whole blog, is in the category of TMI--Too much information. I am writing about it here, because this is my "fissure" blog, because people have asked, and because what I learn may possibly help someone else with this difficult, painful and embarrassing condition.

Don't read this if you are easily offended by unpleasant details.


A friend just asked, "What is wrong with you?


I said: "Many things are wrong with me.  But I think you mean, 'how am I sick, what is my medical condition?'"


I said, "It is sort of unpleasant and embarrassing, which is why I have not

explained more."

So, here are the explanations:

My husband and I both had some intestinal bug that is going around (here).  It causes diarrhea.  I had it for six days, and, I took some Pepto Bismo after a while, because it was so bad.  I took it near the end of the six days and it caused bad constipation, which ripped my rectum.  

I have an anal fissure.  It is very painful.  The doctor says it was caused by the combination of the irritation from the diarrhea followed by the sudden constipation.  It has been bleeding a lot and hurts badly.  I have to sit in a tub of hot water or on a heating pad.  Or both.  I cannot travel until it has healed.


If this is TMI (too much information), I apologize (but since you

asked  . .  .  or continued reading after the warning . . .   )


I have been taking some medication and treatments.  The first few days it actually got worse and the bleeding increased.  But now, each day, it seems to be getting incrementally better.  The increments, so far, are very small.


I really want to be better in time to take my trip to NY to see my children and grandchild.  I am also going (hopefully) because a poem of mine was chosen to be made into a giant poster to be displayed on kiosks in Syracuse NY and they are having a celebration the night of the 18th.  That was why I intended to go that day, after the opera on the 17th.

This is the second time this has happened to me.  When it has happened once, because of scarring inside the rectum, the risk increases for it to happen again.  The medication that finally helped last time was Canasa.  Nothing else worked.  My friend has suggested honey.  I haven't tried that yet.