Hey,
Here's the link to the thread. It may just be coincidence
http://anal-fissure.org/t2831-surgery-or-no-surgery#56243

val wrote:I think it is just a human trait to have to blame something! Whenever anything happens, we wrack our brains and try to think why it happened.......but maybe our fissures were always going to happen. Maybe we just have tiny deformed little buttholes, that can't cope and just suddenly wear out!

Ah, that's funny, Val -- kind of like blowing out an o-ring. I think I'd rather have a deformed face where everyone could see it, and have a nice, regular butthole. Oh, well. I am over four months post LIS, and I am very happy. It's probably even more deformed down there now, but at least it doesn't hurt! And I eat what I want, within reason.