I was suffering from a lot of pain after passing the stool.� I endured this horrible pain for over an year. But 5 months ago, I visited a general & laparoscopic surgeon and he diagnosed (visual inspection) the problem to be of chronic fissure. He gave me a laxative, some antibiotics and anobliss cream and told me to take these for a month. So here i'm, after 5 months and the pain is still there after passing the stool. And it lasts for many hours in the whole day. After applying the anobliss cream, the pain goes away for a couple of days, but starts again after 3-4 days. So I guess the fissure is recurring again and again. I'm 30 years old obese male, always under stress due to various reasons. And this fissure pain is making it worse. I drink a lot of water (3.5 liter a day) I take duphalac syrup as well as husk every alternate day, but I still pass hard stools sometimes. I'm not highly constipated, because I always have at least one bowel movement every day. Never in my life of 30 years a day has passed without me having a bowel movement. So what could be the reason of hard stool? Anyways, so few days ago, I went to a colorectal surgeon. After inspecting carefully, he said it's not a fissure and those are not anal skin tags. He said, they are anal warts and suggested me to use a lidocaine gel and betadine sits bath. After doing this regularly over the last two weeks, the pain has reduced to a great extent. But now i'm even more worried, after reading about anal warts. I have read online that anal warts are almost always due to hpv virus. And hpv is an std. I have never performed any kind of sexual activity involving another partner. Then how could I get this hpv? What am I supposed to do now? Please help me docs.