Anybody else have fissures for 5 years straight? Or am I just lucky?

Remicade keeps me sane, but I'm really tired of this daily pain. and some days are worse than others,like this one!

Never had constipation, never had diarhea. Never even had to strain. Just lucky. I have no idea why I keep getting fissures and can't get rid of them.

As for medication, I tried absolutely everything under the sun while trying to avoid Remicade. That was one awful 1 1/2 years of pure misery. Remicade got me to a reasonable state of pain but I still have fissures. Surgery doesn't seem to be an option. I'm all out of options, so it seems.

Even tried religion. Thinking about witchcraft now.

I've had a fissure for 7 years straight! I spent a whole year with the colorectal surgeon, who tried treating it with everything in his arsenal and was initially very hopeful that it would heal. But after a year, he told me that I'd just have to live with it. He said that he could repair it surgically, but that then I would be incontinent--and we both agreed that I'd rather live with the discomfort (ouch!) than with Depends. The pain comes and goes; it seems to get worse when I have days of endless diarrhea (which is most of them). I use some topical analgesics when it becomes unbearable. But I'm reconciled to the fact that this is the way it's going to be--and I've learned to live with it. I hope you won't have to.

I also get them. On and off for years. I use cortisone cream to relieve the pain and inflammation. Could you possibly have crohn's in the rectum? I know this can cause fissures in the anal area too.

To give you guys some hope, I used to have really bad perirectal disease: fissure, fistulas, abscess, hemorrhoids, perianal skin tags (elephant ears), and inflammation for many years. I practically lived in an epsom salt bath every every single night. But it's been healed now for about a year *knocks on wood*. All that is left is the floppy skin remnants from one hemmie and one elephant ear. Hang in there!

I have had fissures and hemmies for years.  The first one due to severe constipation. I had surgery for the first one. It was before I was dx.  After I was dx, I had sever hemmies and fissure.  I had surgery again.  Then last Sept., I had another flex sig that showed another fissure.  I have had leakage mainly before or after a BM causing me to wear a pad.  Do you think my leakage is from disease, hemmies, or fissure?  I am tired of the leakage and wearing pads.  It is hard to wear pads when you want to go to the pool.

WOW! I was out a few days and came back to all these replies! Thanks, peeps!

Know what's funny? I kind of hope they don't completely go away, because if they did I'm afraid a relapse might just be totally devastating to me. Like I'd think "oh boy, 5 more years.". For now I live with it and should be thankful that this is it for now. I have discovered that some foods make it worse and luckily those are mostly junk foods, so I am at a good weight and feel healthy.

But, I do hate the changes in my schedule to accomodate the pain, not wanting to travel because my schedule would be hard to keep at someone's house, and having to make sure the hotel is gonna have a bathtub so I can put out the flames each morning!

Oh, didn't mention my schedule: wake up 3:30, use bathroom by 3:50. Take bath (to quench most pain), eat breakfast, go back to sleep from 4:30 to 5:30 (sleep off the pain). Crazy, huh? But it beats sitting at my desk with fresh pain every day.

seems there are a few of you that mention the pain lasting a few minutes. Mine lasts for at least 4 hours. wonder why? oh well, still count my blessings.