On Jan 1st 2010 our family decided to celebrate our new year at water park of America. That day morning, I had pain during my bowl movement. I did not care it much and went to the Water park. During the after noon I developed pain in the Butt and it kept on increasing. I could not stand, walk or sit. I did not understand what had happened to me, I went to rest room and tried for bowel movement again. That was it, my situation got worse from there. I came home and went to urgent care.The doctor suspected internal hemorrhoids(piles), they prescribed PreparationH cream. With or With out cream my pain got released after 5 hours and during night time I felt alright. Next day morning the same old story unbearable pain, I went to the doctor again, they suspected fissure and asked me to use the same cream. The cream itself not working for me. I went to specialist and confirmed Fissure again and prescribed me rectal ointment. The did not help me completely.I used to wake up at 4 in the morning, go the rest room, almost cry with pain for an hour, take 2 Advil pain killers, get my self settled after 4 to 5 hours. I could not able to concentrate of many things with this pain. I now understand the real meaning of the word "Pain in the As.." , well I never use that word in any situation.When I read review of this product from its main website I decided to buy this and try. I used 3 tubes, along with this cream these are the other things I did.1. Every day morning I used to drink 350 ml of Barley juice. Barley removes all the heat and provides great source of fiber. Here is how I made Barley juice,a. Get the Barley powder or Raw Barley from Indian or Asian stores. I tried getting Barley from Cubfoods or Walmart but not available there.b. Take 3 full spoons of Barley powder, if its raw Barley make it as power using your Mixer.c. Mix the Barley power with half glass of cold water. Stir it very well.d. Take a dish, pour 250 or 300 ml water in it, boil the water to bubbles.e. Slowly keep adding barley water mix in to the hot water, stir it well to dissolve any lumps.f. When its ready to overflow, switch of the stove, cool hot barley water for 15 to 20 min.d. Add salt (optional) and 1 glass of yogurt to it and drink. You can also drink with out yogurt.2. One Omega3 boiled egg in the morning. I got Cage free Omega3 eggs from Cub foods and they taste great. I bought Omega3 powder from Sams club too but rarely used it.3. Two fiber choice tablets per day. Taking Fiber is very imp, not just tablets but any form of fiber including spinach, broccoli, green veggies etc.4. One nature made magnesium 450 mg soft gel available at Costco. I think taking magnesium helped me to regulate bowl movements and strengthen butt mussels.5. At costo you get stool softener tablets brand name is "Kirkland Signature Stool Softener Docusate Sodium 100 mg", I tried using Miralax but it did not work for me so used stool softener tablets they worked great.6. Completely stopped taking any Chilli products includes Indian pickles, chilli powder, banana peppers, jalapenos. I tried taking chilis but the next morning I could not withstand the pain, so much pain...and burning sensation.7. Drink at least 2 to 3 liters of water. Hot tub sitting ones or twice in a day.8. The Advil Liquid Gel tablets helped me to reduce the pain. some times I used to take two tablets at a time or max of 5 tablets during the day.9. Having light exercise, couple of yoga movements like "Pavan muktasana" can help. I did not try much though but I am sure Yoga can really help.10. Once you are cleared with fissure stop taking stool softners and magnesium but continue to take fibers and make sure you do not have hard stools and constipation.*One more important thing I noticed, fissure or hemorrhoids do not happen all of sudden, they develop internally, its better to check rectum area with fingers once in a while to check if we get any pain or not, couple of months ago when I put my finger in to the track, there was some degree of pain. Bowl movements are just fine so I did not care about it. I am sure that was the starting point of my fissure. I could have changed my eating habits or drinking more water would have helped me.Finally use this amazing cream twice a day and that's it my fissure is gone now after 5 months. Hah, its a long time but we should live with it for that long. If you are lucky you get cured in one are two months. All the best.
