Hi! Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'll try to keep this short. I developed a fissure due to having undiagnosed celiac disease at the end of last year around November. Before the diagnosis, I kept mentioning it to my gastro that "the area" hurts pretty badly, but she just chalked it up to having to go a lot and wiping a lot.
Fast forward to February, I get the diagnosis and have been strictly gluten free since and, knock on wood, BMs are pretty normal these days. I also drink a lot of water and eat a lot of fiber. But the butt pain didn't go away and at one point in March it got so bad I was thinking about offing myself. I could barely get up from the couch. It kept hurting during the day, impaired my sleep and was especially bad when I had to cough/sneeze etc.
I did got to a proctologist, but he couldn't really look inside because it hurt so bad. He prescriped internal steroid ointment for suspected hemmorhoids and it did help somewhat, but it was still very painful. Some days were okay-ish, and other days were just plain bad and it was really starting to affect my mental health, we all know this feeling. I knew something had to give, so I went to another proctologist last monday, where they do the examanition under super short anesthesia and he confirmed it's a pretty bad chronic fissure. We booked an appointment for laser LIS for next Thursday (the 7th), since he said it's so bad it definitely won't heal on its own. I read every post on this sub and I was/am not too worried about the procedure itself... BUT...
Since he did the exam... it's like something magical happened and my butt stopped hurting? The first two days after the rectoscopy were rough and I had some blood, but now I only feel minor discomfort during BMs and when I'm not on the throne I do not feel it at all. This feeling was unimaginable to me just a week ago. And now I'm confused and don't know what to do and how to move forward. I will call the proctologist's office later this week if things stay like this/improve further, because I'm honestly baffled. I haven't changed anything. I hop in the shower after every BM, do sitz baths still, drink a lot of water and all that... but every day it's just getting better even during BMs, today it was only mild discomfort... I'm at a loss, honestly. Any thoughts?