anal fissure from having D all the time?

so, i had a resection 6 years ago and have had D about 98% of the time ever since. i've come to accept and live with it.

few months ago i started noticing a bit of dripping bright red blood from my anus, usually after the 2nd 'wave' of pushing out the loose/watery D.

alarmed, i went to see my GI and he didn't seem to mind that i was bleeding, even though i never had before. he just scheduled a small bowel series, bloodwork and another colonoscopy. my last scope was 2 years ago.

i've read some things about anal fissures and internal hemmies, but it seems to me that these are common in people with C, as opposed to D... or can it go either way?

i actually just went to the bathroom here at work a few mins ago and same thing happened. first push was fine, 2nd came the drip. it stops when i relax my butt muscles (for lack of a better term). have i maybe just stretched it out from how frequently i go? are there any OTC remedies for this?

thanks in advance.

signed,

-the man who got his period. [ya gotta laugh!]

br4d,  the anal fissures are not nice, but it's something I think we all have to deal with. I had mine begin when I was 15. I am now 22. My fissure was and still can be really bad. It is crohn's affected and will always come back if I don't watch what I eat. Just in the past year I figured out what helps them.

1.Take lots of baths with epsoms salt.

2.Use a perianal bottle before you wipe(cuts down on how much you have to wipe)

3.Use flushable feminine wipes. Helps keep the fissure clean.

4.If you can get a sitz bath that you place on your toilet and use 3x a day, that helps a lot.

5.Zinc oxide can be your best friends as well. It helps heal.

The epsom salts help clean the fissure and heal it.

You can get perianal bottles from the drugstore or the hospital if you can't find them in the store. Pregnant women get them when they have babies. I got 3 LOL.

You can find the wipes in the womens sections at walmart.

Not to be too open, but my fissure was located from my tail bone all the way down to my anus. It's taken a long time to figure out how to heal it. I use all of these tips daily. It takes a lot of the stress off your bottom. I don't know anything about fissures on the inside, but if that's where yours are located good luck. Hope this helps.

I've had both fissures and a fistula. I contribute it to having Crohn's disease affecting the rectal area mainly. Not so much D.