Ouch!
It's not the same thing but after I had dd1 I had an extremelyyyyyy bad tear. The ob told me to take this syrup stuff called lactalose every day. I had constipation issues before hand and this helped hugely. It's cheap so no harm trying to help soften things up before you can get into a GP. I used it for quite a few weeks and mostly everything was nice and soft so not so ouchy...