Anyone Have An Anal Fissure Surgery?

[jasonD2]

my doc said he can fix me up in his office but im worried about incontinence of stool and gas and with my ongoing GI problems and chronic hard stools i fear it will just return - any info would be appreciated

[T.H.]

I had horrific fissures and hemorrhoids after pregnancy that kept reopening over and over.

I don't know that what I found works for everyone, and I honestly can't recall where I read of what to do, but I DID find something that worked for me. It took a while, but it actually helped significantly. Very simple: don't sit down to defecate. Squat over the toilet instead. It makes your muscles actually tighten up quite a bit more so it makes the fissures less likely.

It was really hard to do at first, and I had to hang onto something to manage it, but it made a difference, big time.

If you look up fissures and squatting on google, or hemorrhoids and squatting, it might get some information for you. As I recall, it ended up finding me some information on natural methods of trying to take care of hemerrhoids and fissures.

Again, I don't know that this would work in your case, but it might be worth a look, at least.

[diesel]

I have had 2 surgeries (first one didn't get it all. This took place before I went gluten-free. The fissure was after delivering a baby. I was scared as well but I healed perfectly fine and have no further problems.