I think my doctors are trying to torture me on purpose!

[lookitsjen]

I am so fed up right now. So I have had excruciatingly painful anal fissures for a long time, but they have gotten to be the worst they've ever been the last 6 months or so. So when I finally got to see a GI on July 5th he tells me "oh we want to do a sigmoidoscopy on you and you have to do 2 enemas the morning of". I cried and told him I can't because they hurt and burn so bad and he told me to suck it up. I somehow survived that experience went to the doctor's office to have the procedure done. My fissures are so painful that I woke up out of deep sedation as soon as they touched my butt. I had an endoscopy done at the same time and don't remember a thing but as soon as they went back there i woke up screaming my head off. then he says "yes you have anal crohn's" and prescribes me these suppositories that are supposed to reduce the inflammation. So i do those for about five days 2x a day but they got to the point where they were causing me more pain so i stopped. I just saw my GI again on thursday and told him I couldn't do the suppositories because of the pain. SO he prescribes me nightly ENEMAS i have to do. WTF. again i cried at the thought of the pain and he wouldn't even look at me until i stopped crying. I was able to do the first one with no problem but last night which was night 2 it got stuck halfway in and if i tried to push it i felt like my insides were being cut open with glass so I gave up and said f it. Then my doc also said to call this surgeon about my fissures and i did and told her how painful they are even with a gentle touch and she says "oh well you can make an appointment make sure you do two fleet enemas the night before" i flat out said no you can put my ass to sleep and give me enemas if that's what you need to do and she was like Ok nevermind.

I DON'T GET IT. what don't they understand about me feeling like i have a litter of porcupines living in my butt?!?! WHY can they not just give me a pill I can take orally aghhhhh!!!!!

 

[Jennifer]

That's awful. There's got to be something even some sort or numbing cream you can slather on. What's with those people and wanting to put things up your poor butt? I can't even imagine. I'd want a second opinion but that may take forever. Only thing I can suggest is ask if there's a pill out there you can take orally or a cream you can use before you start shoving things up there or what hammer to buy that will dull your senses enough before you put something up there (I'm kidding don't do that one ) also to seek out a second opinion while you continue seeing your current GI. Heck even calling up your GP might be a good idea as they may have some sort of idea or how to help the pain cause that's just not right.

 

[lookitsjen]

Yeah as I was screaming and crying last night I told my mom if my GI didn't give me a pill I could take that I have to find another GI that will because it is literally torture. and my general doctor is out of the question. her and her sidekick practitioner told me for years that I just have hemorrhoids and that I have chronic diarrhea because and i quote
"I am 22, I go to SDSU [which is a known party school], and I must have gone to Tijuana ate some bad tacos and drank too much"

even though I told those doctors that I am one of the few serious students at that school, I no longer drink, and that i've never been to TJ.

I'm really starting to despise doctors.

 

[Joleen23]

I suffer with fissures too, remember my last attempted colonoscopy and the same thing happened , was sedated but was in so much pain i couldn't stop screaming. They have just sent me a letter saying i need another one. Gonna call them on monday and ask for a GA or it aint happening lol

 

[lookitsjen]

yeah for the colonoscopy they said they will give me general anesthesia because of the fact i woke up out of the regular sedation. good luck with your procedure!