I had my first botox shot 5 weeks ago, and I went in for my check-up yesterday. The good news is that my doctor said there appeared to be some healing. The bad news is that there's a second fissure. C'est la vie.
The appearance of a second fissure makes me think that conditions down there are making me prone to these things, so unless I figure out how to deal with the actual cause, I'll just have to suck it up and deal with AF indefinitely. Unfortunately, I've spent the last 8 months experimenting with various diets and supplements to attack the actual cause, but I have found no logical and consistent correlation between what I ingest and what I poop. Oh well.
I would also like to note that this morning I had perhaps the largest diameter crap in the history of mankind. Fiss, if this were the Ass Olympics, I would have won a gold medal for this log (i think it was you who came up with the ass olympics, right?). I've actually been having a lot of big poos lately. Don't know why. I told my doc, and she prescribed me a mild laxative so we'll see how that works (kristalose). I certainly won't take it indefinitely, but maybe it'll get rid of these gargantuan poos and give me a chance to heal.
Hope you're all doing well!
steve