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Itching for more than 1 year

I have had a daily VERY INTENSE anal itch for a very long time now; almost a year. During itching i cant walk due to the intensity, i have been to a proctologist who said i was just developing hemorriods and prescibed Hemorol which subsided the itch for only the 7 days i was using it. I also went to a gastroenterologist who did series of test and the reesult was that i had gastritis and was treated. She also has given me series of suppositories; relief ultra, protosan, protosedyl, they all only keep the itching away for 7 days in course of use. I also visited my dermatologist and he said everything was fine for his part, i need help please i am tired of this problem and forgot to say when it itches me and i go to the tiolet to clean, i always find stool on the tiolet paper<leaking stool which i think is the main cause of the itching. Could someone please help me out.....
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Hi,

   I have the exact same symptoms and have learned how to minimize the problem.  At my worst, I had trouble walking because the itch had become a terrible soreness.  It affected my nightly sleep.  It was definitely the stool that was irritating.  At my worst, the stool seemed to weep, so that even after painstaking cleaning, it would still weep out of the anus and cause irritation.

   First, my advice on how to sooth the itch.  The best is to jump into the shower and clean completely with flushing water after a bowel movement.  Wiping works only if you wipe many many times with wet tissue.  Even after cleaning, you may still feel the itch (can be caused by weeping or even a pin-head sized piece of stool left, or that could even be a little way inside the anus.  Apply a cream that people use for babies that have diaper rash.  This will protect your skin from the irritating stool.

   Next, how to control the itch by diet.  I found that my irritating stool is minimized when I eliminated all sugar and starch, and allergens, from my diet.  This includes all naturally forming sugars and starch.  That meant no more of the following:
fruits  (some lemon OK)
grains (breads, wheat, rice, barley, etc)
starch added to sauces or seasoning
starchy vege: potatoes, swt potatoes, yams, many root veges (I cannot even eat carrots), corn
allergens (you have to determine by elimination what you are allergic to.  Common ones are soy, corn, eggs, ......)
sorbitol

   I eat leafy green veges, protein and fat (needed for energy instead of the carbs).  I am now healthier than I have been in years.  If I eat something forbidden, I know the next day!  Raw salads also seem to aggravate my digestion and so I eat everything cooked.  The only fruit I eat is banana, which I use for baking banana bread, and plantain chips as a snack with hummus.   I use ground almond meal to bake the banana bread, and this is my bread substitute for breakfast.  You can read elain gothschild (spelling?) book, called "The specific carbohydrate diet", where she has some recipes using almond meal.  I initially was on her diet, and it helped a little, and finally I went to an even stricter diet that eliminated all the sugars and starches and that seemed to solve my problem with the anal itch.

   BTW, I also had CFS for years and years, of which one of the symptoms was the anal itching.  Once I cleaned up my diet, all these symptoms of fatigue and itch went away (except of the odd day).  I now have a full  active life again, and considered myself cured of CFS.

   The diet may be difficult to stick to but its worth it.  It requires cooking almost everything yourself so you know what exactly you are eating!  I hardly eat out, and only at those that post an allergy guide so I can be sure there is no sugar or allergen (I avoid soy).   I read all the labels on processed foods for hidden sugar/starch.   You will experience die-off, and be very very tired for a time before you start feeling better.  I read to expect a month of die-off, but for me it was 6 months.  After 6 months, I noticed the depresson gone, and energy and spark back.   I forget how long it took for the itch to go away, but I think it was much sooner.

   There is plenty of info on the internet of people that are intolerant of sugar, and that recommend a low FOS diet.  It may help for you to read up on this issue.  It gives some understanding to what digestive problems you may have.

   Hope this helps!
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Same here, only I am a little different I experienced two blood clots so a hemorrhoid surgery was done, and than a month ago rubber band ligation. The itching is either from an actual hemorrhoid or from a skin tag.  I experience the same symptoms as what francisloubna has written. Some things I have found useful, is moistened toilet paper (you can purchase it from a drug store), warm bath’s, don’t sit or stand from long periods of time, lifting heavy objects kills me, drink lots of water.

At first I tried the theory, less if eat, the less that comes out lol however not the right way of looking at things.
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Wow. What you have explained is exactly what is happening to me. Please help!
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Bump this thread cuz that makes 3 of us
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i have had the same problem for almost a year now. the itching is about to drive me crazy. it happens after i have a bowel movement and like you i can be clean but can go back and wipe again an hour later and the tp will have stool on it.  i almost want to avoid a bowel movement because i know afterwards the intense itching will start.
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