Hello All,
I am new to this forum and was pretty excited when I found it. I am very familiar with Crohn's disease because my father has had it for 30+ years. I just recently began to have some similar symptoms, but am not sure if it is related or not. I've been back and forth to the doctor, but they do very little for me. Everytime I make a new visit when I'm not feeling well they think I am 'lying', which discourages me from even going anymore when I am in pain or something goes wrong. I am one of those people who absolutely hate hospitals and only will go if I am in great pain. I can usually deal with pain pretty well.
It all started back in September of 2011. I began to get hemorrhoids and other things that i just classify as hemorrhoids because i am not sure of what they are. They hang outside of my rectum and are usually soft and not very painful. But then there are other times when they are pink and fleshy and the pain becomes unbearable. I have also had issues with anal fissures for months now and im in so much pain that Im often afraid to even have a bowel movement. Afterwards when I wipe back there, there will be big stains of blood on the tissue. Sometimes i am constipated and sometimes im not. I also have cramping in my lower abdomen. The walls around my rectum are almost always flared up and i can feel it hanging out when im just sitting or walking, but there's really no pain until after i have a bowel movement. I would describe the pain as kind of like an open wound inside of me that burns and sometimes itches. When it's at it worse, it feels as though someone is pouring alcohol onto an open wound.
I've never had any problems like this before. I am in the military and the doctors here aren't really doing much to help me. I haven't had any tests done besides "looking down there" and a stool sample to make sure there wasn't any blood present in it. They just tell me what they think it is or what it might be. One nurse was very rude with me over the phone when i told her i was bleeding back there. I just feel like im getting the run around and think it would be better if i go to a civilian hospital instead. I'm not getting anywhere with this, it's very stressful. I'm worried, because this is an ongoing thing, not something that happened once and has gone away.
I am new to this forum and was pretty excited when I found it. I am very familiar with Crohn's disease because my father has had it for 30+ years. I just recently began to have some similar symptoms, but am not sure if it is related or not. I've been back and forth to the doctor, but they do very little for me. Everytime I make a new visit when I'm not feeling well they think I am 'lying', which discourages me from even going anymore when I am in pain or something goes wrong. I am one of those people who absolutely hate hospitals and only will go if I am in great pain. I can usually deal with pain pretty well.
It all started back in September of 2011. I began to get hemorrhoids and other things that i just classify as hemorrhoids because i am not sure of what they are. They hang outside of my rectum and are usually soft and not very painful. But then there are other times when they are pink and fleshy and the pain becomes unbearable. I have also had issues with anal fissures for months now and im in so much pain that Im often afraid to even have a bowel movement. Afterwards when I wipe back there, there will be big stains of blood on the tissue. Sometimes i am constipated and sometimes im not. I also have cramping in my lower abdomen. The walls around my rectum are almost always flared up and i can feel it hanging out when im just sitting or walking, but there's really no pain until after i have a bowel movement. I would describe the pain as kind of like an open wound inside of me that burns and sometimes itches. When it's at it worse, it feels as though someone is pouring alcohol onto an open wound.
I've never had any problems like this before. I am in the military and the doctors here aren't really doing much to help me. I haven't had any tests done besides "looking down there" and a stool sample to make sure there wasn't any blood present in it. They just tell me what they think it is or what it might be. One nurse was very rude with me over the phone when i told her i was bleeding back there. I just feel like im getting the run around and think it would be better if i go to a civilian hospital instead. I'm not getting anywhere with this, it's very stressful. I'm worried, because this is an ongoing thing, not something that happened once and has gone away.
I'm sorry you're not getting much help and agree with Miss U that you need to see a different doc. The fleshy lumps that you are describing could be skin tags, which are common when you've had hemmies and fissures.
