SC,
It really did help me talking to the crs. I'm not really looking forward to the recovery but atleast this time I will be healing a fissure with the help of a doctor and doing a procedure that has been proven to work the best.
I also found out about a couple of more people who have had the surgery who I know personally and are living normal lives right now. So, that really helped me out...
I know what you mean about your fissure behaving when you are ready to call the crs. Mine has healed for weeks at a time. Once for 4 weeks but it just came back. I was kind of happy to see blood yesterday before my appointment. I have had more blood in the past few weeks then I have in six months. Not a whole lot but more often then I use to.
One thing I can say is nobody could convince me to have this surgery until I was ready and I had to see if I could heal it on my own before I was ready to make that decision.