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Posted 7/31/2016 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
Been suffering for two weeks with a fissure. My IBD Nurse had a look a week ago and said all looks red and there is a fissure there. It is extremely painful and last week was bleeding a lot. My anus feels very sore and swollen. I have stopped my enemas for the last four nights. I got some rectogesic ointment but stopped that also after three days as I thought it was making things worse. Incidently since stopping it the bleeding has lessened. The nurse told me to increase my steroids if I felt the need. To go up to 30mg first and if things didn't improve go up to 40mg. I increased to 30mg for one week then reduced to 25mg yesterday.

I am really tempted because of the pain, my frequency etc to increase again like she said. My dialema is do I go back up to 30mg for a bit longer or go up to 40mg. Could I take 40mg for say 5 days then do a quickish taper to 20mg as that is the dose I have been told to stay at.

Would love anyones thoughts on this. Will the steroids help.
Posted 8/3/2016 2:00 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry nobody got back to you Martha. I suffered from a fissure, then abscess, then fistula, then had surgery and it returned back to a fissure that seemed like it would never heal. I don't know if you've dealt with these before but I found really hot baths to be the best thing to relieve the soreness. I can't comment on the steroids, I have no experience with them. Calmoseptine ointment was good for a temporary relief from the pain, but I felt that it was making things worse long term.

I was dealing with the soreness for months. By accident, I found that an exercise routine actually helped the area to finally feel healed. I do deep squats 3 times a week and, for some reason, that has really helped. I don't know if any of this will help you but I didn't want you to feel ignored. I hope things heal up for you.
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