do i go to the docs

[jrobinson200]

Hi all,
got an embarrasing problem, i think i have an anal fissure. I remember it starting like 2 years ago, a massive glass like pain when i go to the loo and blood on the toilet paper. But then i didnt have it for ages but past few months ive had pain everytime i go to the loo. I booked to c the doc and the appointment is today, but since ive gone on my healthy eating after new year i havent experience so much pain and no blood. should i stilll go to the docs to confirm that is all it is, or shall i not go/..........

[Bbbananas]

yeah go - just to be on the safe side. It's always wise with symptoms such as these - even though it's embarrassing!

I had a fissure once - bleedin' hell was it painful, so I sympathise with you.

[jrobinson200]

did u go to the docs? how did they examine u and wot treatment did they give? thanks

[Ethel]

Sounds like piles to me.

Let the doctor sort it out

[jukie]

YES - GO TO THE DOC!! Never leave anything like this just because you havent had any symptoms for a while - you should still go and get checked out - may be nothing serious, but should still get checked.
Hope all goes well for you. By the way, do not be embarrased about this either, that's why a lot of people get ill as they think problem is too embarrasing to see a doc - nothing is ever too embarrasing for docs - they see these things every day. Take Care

[Bbbananas]

well jr - nothing too awful - the embarrassment was the worst bit (cos I actually work with the doc in question - strange for one minute to be sat having coffee with him & chatting about the weather & Coldplay's latest... then....). It wasn't even 'finger up the back passage' or anything - just a prod & a good view - enough to satisfy him that it was a fissure & nothing else. He gave me some ointment(s) - Proctosedyl I found to be the best, but there are various others.
It's always best to have these things checked out - could be a fissure, could be piles, doubtful it's anything more serious but never ignore bleeding from the back bits.

[sqad617]

Yeah, go to the Docs, it is almost certainly fissure in ano. Easy to treat.

[jrobinson200]

guess i got to go then!! :(
appointments at 2 ill report back afterwards hehe. o how embarassing, i dont want someone poking my bum!

[Bbbananas]

"don't want someone poking my bum"
No comment ;-)

[Bbbananas]

Hello sqad - have missed you this week! One thing I hear you've gone off to play billiards, the next there's not a pip or a squeak.

How uncanny that we are both so knowledgeable on anal fissures?!

[Bbbananas]

It's dead on 2 o'clock - just think - right at this very minute one of our ABer's has someone's digit fingering around his rectum. Isn't a funny old world when we know such intimate details about our fellow posters.

How did you get on JR?

[sqad617]

salla, my little treasure, the loght of my light....yes we will have to get to the BOTTOM of jr's problem.

My silence: last Thusday night horriffic thunderstorms hit the Balearics and knocked out electricity and telephones. The electricity was soon re-established, but astonishingly connector boxes (can't remember the proper name) suffered and telephone wires decimated...the storm was right above the village and was frightening BUT, back to the only woman in my life...well, barmaid, jogger, cab, sara...etc.

[Bbbananas]

You're in the Balearics? Oh lucky you. Holiday or resident? I had no idea. I wish I lived somewhere warmer, sunnier, milder, further away,,,,,,

[andy-hughes]

You do need to go to your GP - never put anything like this off - it's not worth the risk.

As for embarassment - I met our new female GP for the first time on just such an appointment. One minute we were shaking hands and saying 'Pleased to meet you ,,.' and three minutes later ...

they don't bother, either should you.

[sqad617]

salla...I live there.
P.S How is you "affliction?"

[Bbbananas]

JR should be on his way back now Andy, from his 2 o'clock appnt - if he didn't go, you can rest assured we will nag nag nag him until he does. ;-)

Docs must see at least a dozen bums, front bottoms & dangly bits a week - like you said, it's all in a day's work to them.

[jrobinson200]

hey im a girl!! Jenna if you must know!!
Nice to know you were thinking of me having my bum poked lol. Yes I went and it was traumatic haha. She was really nice said it would be worth looking so she did and yes it is a fissure. got some cream so should go away! thanks for pursuading me to go!

[sqad617]

jr....just read your question again...........it is YOU that vis embarrased......all the answers seem to indicate that the embarrassment you describe is on the part of the doctors.

It is natural and normal for the patient to be embarrased.
For the doctor, he oe she can think of better things to do than put on a glove and stick it up someones "bum"

[jrobinson200]

o yes it is me thats embarrassed of course! im the one with my trousers down! lol

[Bbbananas]

Sorry Jenna!!
Glad you went - now don't forget to apply that cream!
Sqad - thank you for enquiring m'dear - the nipples & breasts are still a little itchy, but not so much as last week. I have refrained from keeping getting them out in front of Keith, so he is much more comfortable in the office. Piriton took off the worst of it, and going bra-less from the minute I get home also helps!

[sqad617]

Sounds good to me salla....the bra less bit I mean....does the Welsh BF agree.....lucky devil.