RECTIV

How to use RECTIV
from here.

Rectiv, or nitroglycerine ointment, "is the first and only FDA-approved medicine for the treatment of moderate to severe pain from chronic anal fissure."  There is a limited amount of somewhat useful information about anal fissures relatively easily found on the site using tabs.

However, this ointment's sole task is to treat pain.  Symptomatic relief.  I want something that will heal the problem, make it GO AWAY!  I DO want the pain to stop.  But jamming a finger up my butt and wiggling it around when it's in so much pain already doesn't seem like a good way to heal it.  :-(

I read that some people can't take the side-effect headaches.  (I have not tried this, so I cannot report about the headaches.)