Hi. Apologies in advance for TMI. I visited the doctor a while ago, towards the end of Feb. I had bleeding after bowel movement, what look liked quite a bit of blood. Had also been suffering from quite bad constipation and thus it hurt to go and so I thought it was definitely a fissure.

He prescribed macrogol and a steriod cream for treating internal piles. It was great. About a week after I started the treatment, no more bleeding or blood at all.


Anxiety has spiked again today. I had a bowel movement earlier that was quite dry/painful and there was quite small spots of red on the paper and its generally just quite sore down there now however none in the toilet bowl. Is this normal for a fissure to reopen? / Does this mean I had both piles and a fissure? I'm worried that there actually is an underlying issue as I read somewhere bleeding can come and go and now its back again.