It hasn't been too bad so far. Still dreading the first bm, but not so bad yesterday or today. The enema before LIS was terrible and aggravated the fissure. The pain now from LIS isn't as bad as fissure pain after bm, but it's no picnic either.
After years of fighting fissures I finally decided to go through with it. I got to the point where I couldn't live like that any longer. I don't think I've ever completely gotten rid if the fissure in 4 years. I had ups and downs and times where it seemed it was gone, but one bad bm and it was back with a vengence. Hopefully, this will allow it to completely heal. I went to a new GI doc last year because I thought I had hemorrhoids again, but he did a flex sig and said no hemorrhoids
but very deep fissure. He gave me Nitro ointment and that did help very much with after bm spasms but I never healed completely. He told me at the time that the ointment doesn't work completely for a small percentage of people. Of course, I am one of those people. I had tried Nifedipine within 6 months of first getting a fissure but it didn't work at all for me. I wish I would have been given Nitro sooner. I possibly could have avoided LIS and maybe the years of pain I have been through.
I plan to post some replies here to track my progress.