A sphincter is an anatomical structure, or a flapular valve, that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning. Sphincters are found in many animals; there are over 50 in the human body , some microscopically small, in particular the millions of precapillary sphincters .
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I had a sphincterotomy today to treat a stubborn anal fissure (I had attempted non-surgical treatments for over one year prior with no success). It has now been several hours...
Hi... Doc, I have a fatty liver and severe Acidity problem. I am a Muslim and fasting these days, after two to three hours I undergo a severe bout of Heartburn right a diaphragm sphincters and a continouos moderately...
I habe been diagnosed with Severe Constipation for several years. I contin ue to argue that, since I have to pry hard stool out from above my anal shincter, I can tell that the sphincter is too tight. I have to...
hi, i think i have anal fissure/abscess. I was in severe pain until a week ago i could also feel the Sphincter spasms which were agonising. Now the pain is less but i still have significant bleeding. What worries me...
I have a soft bump about the size of a kidney bean on/in my anal passage/sphincter area. It is soft almost squishy to the touch. There is no discharge of any kind of fluid. During bowel movements or even if I shift...
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User : hi my partner and i have often tried anal sex..i'm not keen on it at all but i have become a little looser down there and can leak sometimes in the act of making love..i don't want to see my gp as i am in pretty good form other than that..i...
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is it ok if the internal anal sphincter has a gap the size of a salt piece? tiny tiny tiny gap in internal anal sphincter...the gap is the size of a tiny piece of salt...is this normal? this is after i open my external sphincter and look at the internal one
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when i put my hands very close to my anal sphincters and pull away ( as if im trying to open the hole) the internal sphincter parts a little little little bit . the hole widens almost 1/4 of a milimeter. is this supposed to happen? or is the internal anal sphincter not supposed to open even a little bit?? my question is...is it ok to see the...
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when i put my hands very close to my anal sphincters and pull away ( as if im trying to open the hole) the internal sphincter parts a little little little bit . the hole widens almost 1/4 of a milimeter. is this supposed to happen? or is the internal anal sphincter not supposed to open even a little bit??
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i have no passage of gas or stool or liquid stool or anything. and when there is stool in rectum i can hold it there for hours...so with this discription can i have any type of loosness in internal or external anal sphincters?
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when i put my hands very close to my anal sphincters and pull away ( as if im trying to open the hole) the internal sphincter parts a little little little bit . the hole widens almost 1/4 of a milimeter. is this supposed to happen? or is the internal anal sphincter not supposed to open even a little bit?? my question is...is it ok to see the...
Hello- so I m 20 years old and I m gay, about 2 weeks ago I had sex with a guy who s penis was a bit too large and I tried to take it and it hurt me so I stopped then we tried again in the morning and still couldn t, a few days before having sex with him or trying I should say I was having diarrhea and upset stomach and had to run to the...
hi i have just had my 4th sphinctotamy and another 2 stents put in, while the pain is not as bad as it was b4 the 1st one, 2 yrs ago, i am in a constant state of feeling that my insides are bing twisted all the time and have been told that i will now have to have it stitched down. can the sphincter muscle just b removed. My next appointment is...
Hi, I have seriously bad pressure in low abdomen and swelling senstation in my rectum . Problems began 18months ago when my ex partner forcably penetrated me anally, and I beleive has torn the interior wall of my sphincter and rectum, there is execess skin there now and i can feel stools move forward into what feels like a pocket there, there is...
I have had a problem with a severly torn rectal sphincter since my too large to deliver son in 1978. In 2001 there was an attempt tp repair ir. It failed and I have been caught in uncontrolable episode of involuntay fecal incontenence most ooften if stool was loose (not watery) but even pasty. I have been through the Physicak Therapy for woman...
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if you part your buttock so hard(putting your hands very close to the anus ) is it ok to see the internal anal sphincter parting only a LITTlE bit??? almost 1/4 milimeter... my exact question is...is it normal to see the internal anal sphincter parting just a little bit?? or does this indicate sphincter loosness??
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