My butt crack is cracked...need input

I have the same thing happening to me for 3 and half years, and I put some lotion and polysporin on it. it would work for a while then it does the same thing again. what can I do! To make it stop hurting?

Ahhh.....it's must be very painfull for you...but before i prescribe you some medication you please confirm me do you feel any kind of swelling on affectet area?

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Post Edited By Moderator (Ides) : 1/29/2014 5:39:43 PM (GMT-7)

Yes, I know, old thread, but good god an anal fissure gave me hell during 2012: nearly had surgery on the basis of that alone. How can one titchy crack cause so much agony? It's ridiculous!! I turned my toilet into a makeshift bidet by using a squeezy plastic bottle filled with warm water and I dabbed as gingerly at my butt as if it were a primed explosive which would go off at the slightest wrong touch. Also tried various creams, but for me nothing worked other than going on yet another course of steroids, which would calm everything down for long enough to give it a chance to (mostly) heal before the next flare-up.

Incidentally, I never got a doctor to examine me, but I could feel the crack there. And I had never had anything like that agony after passing even the tiniest amount of stool before. It was the first time I'd had any sign of perianal disease and I wonder, reading this, if this is what was happening...

It appears I may have a fistula forming that my remicade is keeping at bay. Good news it is not draining or though the skin so the remicade is doing it's job. This is causing some of my pain in the old arse.

I was on Remicade at the time as well. The Remicade appeared to do sod all, but I do remember my GI telling me it had reduced my inflammatory markers, eg platelets. Anyway, my colon is gone now and I have a fun and exciting stoma to worry about instead :-/

I had a butt crack once but thankfully it healed. Then I got an anal fissure and nothing I put on it helped. It was so~ooo painful. Finally some fungal cream did help it to heal, but it's like the skin in that area is so touchy now, that most often I have to blot or use a wet wipe because I'm so afraid of tearing it again. When the doctor took a look, he said he sees nothing but a small fissure, well if it was only that, can't believe how much it hurt.

I hear ya! When I first got sick back in 1991 and my perianal crohn's skin tags were absolutely killing me then I had a ton of D as my crohn's was now starting to affect me internally as well, I developed many little fissures all around my anus and along with the huge skin tags I still have, the pain was unbearable to the point where I actually had to sit in the tub with some water to pass all my BM's that were mainly all D because the fissures were excruciating on top of everything else going on down there, even my pubic bone ached like crazy and I went through that for months.

The suffering I've been through and still go through after over 2 decades with crohn's (and now IBS too) I literally could just die and be so very ok with that.

I see this is an old topic, but a very useful one!

My hubby has this cracked crack problem since diagnosed when 19... he is now 48yrs old. LOooog time with the burning, itching, seeping, bleeding pain. A recent MRI showed it is not a fistula burning through the skin from the bowel, (Thank Goodness!) but the situation is still a huge pain in the butt for him. No pun intended.

Here's what I'm hoping will work, and if you have any suggestions, please let us know. This is debilitating for him, it is that bad. He is on Humera shots once every 2 weeks. I'm scared he will develop an infection that his body won't be able to fight off.

Okay, so he has a "crack" that is like a long oval. Runs along where the butt cheeks come together. So, around the anus, right up to and slightly onto his scrotum and then back to the anus. Literally a "ring of fire" for him.

He sweats really bad, from the meds and I think it is also just his body's natural thing. At night, he sweats, gets itchy, scratches in his sleep and tears himself open. I usually can feel the mattress shaking when he scratches, it is that bad! Short of me slapping him, he can't stop itching.

After a lot of googling, I found out about "Swamp @ss" and yes, the @ is the letter A. It was very enlightening.

Here's the attack plan:

First, clear up the crack. After every bm, (all diarrea, approx. 10-17 times a day) wash with anti-bacterial soap and warm water. The Soap Works Tea Tree Oil Soap and gentle wash cloth. Use hairdryer on cool setting to dry the area.
Apply an iodine healing tincture to open sores with q-tips. Rougier Tincture of Iodine 5%
Apply liquid waterproof/sweat proof bandage that breaths over sores while not getting it on the anus. New-Skin® Liquid Spray Bandage.
Hopefully, this will hold for a few bathroom visits so he only has to repeat this process 3-4 times a day. Using a new bidet attachment and flushable wipes and hairdryer on cool to dry the area in between the treatment process. Luxe Bidet Neo 120 - Self Cleaning Nozzle - Fresh Water Non-Electric Mechanical Bidet Toilet Attachment and Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Cleansing Cloths.
Soaking in tub with Epson salts. Showering, using the Tea tree oil soak and washcloth.
Allowing "breathing breaks" where his butt is free and breezy (at home!) for short time periods throughout the day.

Second Step of attack plan:
Gotta stop the sweat from building up and irritating the healed skin...
Use a clinical strength antiperspirant all over the butt crack. I don't like the idea of chemicals, so we will try a charcoal based natural deodorant. Charcoal supposedly absorbs 100% moisture. Will apply fresh after every bathroom visit and before going to bed. Going to try PiperWai Activated Charcoal Natural Deodorant.
If he feels like he needs more "dryness," we will try an easy-to-apply gel formula like Manscaped Crop Preserver that dries down to a powdery finish after the deodorant.

If itchy, going to try a light anti-itch lotion like Aveeno Skin Relief 24-Hour Moisturizing Lotion before applying/re-applying charcoal deodorant.

Has anyone tried a treatment similar to this, and did it work? Do you think it sounds like it might work? My hubby is very touchy about the subject of his behind so I'm hoping he will go along with this plan. Here's hoping!

Hello Wife2BathroomKing,

Are you still married and how did your war with his as$ turn out?

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