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.)

broken glass

YES!
:-(
this is from here.
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Yesterday and the day before were terribly bad. I feel slightly improved so far today. Not well enough yet to do my exercises or prepare and eat breakfast (at 10:24 AM).  But I'm not in the agony I was in yesterday so far, knock on wood.  Unfortunately, I had too much pain last night to sleep until after 2 AM, the first time it's been that bad at night.

Barbed wire where the sun don't shine!!!!

Barbed wire where the sun don't shine!
This is not my image.
I found it here.

I was trying to describe the pain of an anal fissure to a friend, and said it was like defecating barbed wire or broken glass,  These people apparently agree. (I hadn't seen this until after I said that.)