Anal Fissure or Anal Abscess....Was my doctor wrong? HELP

Any help is greatly appreciated

First: You have Crohn's. By definition, this means that you are not completely healthy.

Second: Chillax! You'll get plenty of responses. Just takes time.

Third: Hard to say from your description. Fissures can be hard as well. Mine are. It's basically like I got pruny skin (like when you're in water too long), then it swelled up and hardened that way. Mine haven't actually broken the skin, fortunately, but they're still extremely painful. I suggest Calmoseptine, if the stuff your doctor gave you isn't working. You can get it over the counter at any pharmacy, but most don't keep it in-stock, so you may have to ask them to order it. It's a pretty basic zinc oxide ointment that you apply to the affected area. Helps make life livable, for me.

I've never had an abscess, but from what I understand, it's basically a really big, nasty pocket of pus and blood and gross gunk, which I would imagine would feel sore in the same way a zit/pimple is, only more so, and much more painful. I could be wrong, though.

I just finished dealing with an anal fissure myself. Thought it was a hemorrhoid first. Went to GI who wanted to do a sigmoidoscopy but I said there was no way that scope was going anywhere with the pain I had unless he knocked me out. So instead took a look and poked around and thought it may be a hemorrhoid too but sent me across the street to a colorectal surgeon who also looked around and announced it was an anal fissure. In the past the hemorrhoids caused blood and pain but the pain was more of an ache and happened while sitting whereas this fissure was a searing, burning pain all the time and when walking. He gave me some medication that I had to have filled at a compounding pharmacy because it's apparently blood pressure medicine that they make into a gel. I used it for a few days and started to feel better and after a few weeks everything seemed back to my normal. I am due for a colonoscopy in the next month or so when my gi can take a better look to see what's going on. If you are not getting any relief from the meds they prescribed you might want to call and see what else they can give you. I also used a sitz bath two or three times a day with the hottest water I could stand. That seemed to help also.

Good luck. Fissure pain for me is the worst! Though I've never had to deal with an abscess which I hear is pretty bad too. I guess my obstruction was painful also. I think this disease just has some real painful situations associated with it. I am really trying to enjoy my pain free healthy moments more.