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For the last few years I have had a constant battle with hemorrhoids and anal fissures. I didn't know it was fissures and thought I just had hemorrhoids. The sphincter muscle around my anus had tightened up and wasn’t relaxing when I had a bowel movement. I had never heard of anything like this and thought I was just having constipation, all the time. For a couple of years my life was consumed with laxatives, stool softeners and other types of drugs. I lived in fear of having a BM. I missed a lot of work because of it and wasted my vacation time on two day recoveries. It was horrible. Regular doctors were useless. They would say to eat more fiber. What a joke. Fiber just made a bigger BM and caused more pain. I have to say that there were periods of relief where I would go a month or two without symptoms. I would begin to believe that the agony was over. It would always come back. It had gotten worse to the point where I had the problem much more than not and I thought I was going crazy. Life was becoming unbearable. I finally went to a rectal surgeon. He said I had a huge fissure and scheduled me to have a fissurectomy and sphincterotomy. I had to be there at 6:45am last Thursday, August 27th. The surgeon partially cut my anal sphincter muscle to relax it and cauterized the fissure. He sent me home with some anti biotics, some anti nausea medicine and some pain pills. I had instructions to eat lots of fiber and take mineral oil three times a day. I didn’t have a BM until Saturday and it was pretty bad, but the Darvocet helped. I noticed that even though it hurt like crazy because I was so sore down there, the BM was much easier than it had been in years. Every day since it has hurt less and I’m going back to work today, Wednesday, September 2nd. I’ll add more later.