Although I haven't had dialation surgery and don't know much about it, I want to give my opinion about stretching body parts.
I've read about the stretching of the urethra (the tube from the outside of the body to the bladder). In years past, urologists performed it regularly for some types of bladder pain. They now regard it as damaging and antiquated. It was damaging because it was an uncontrolled stretch. I think they mean that there was too much stretch in some places and not as much in others. In some patients, the results were disastrous. This makes me shiver and cringe, much the same reaction I feel when I hear of an anal sphincter stretch. It seems it would follow the same principle.
If I were you, I would explore that option very carefully and with much doubt before submitting to it.

I tend to agree, but I do think a bit of a stretch could be helpful in some cases. There is only one place that I have heard of that has a calibrated instrument for stretching. Otherwise, it is usually done by the dr with his/her fingers and maybe a device (google "bob the anal fissure"). Still, I can't help but wonder if a stretch wouldn't just retear the fissure. I don't know about you all, but my little fiend appeared after a gigantic doodoo, which stretched me beyond capacity--TMI, but you get the point.

Hello Val, thanks for your reply, your doctor gave you codeine???
Terrific, ideal for causing constipation and making the matter worse.
I know how you feel with the pain, and 6 Hours freedom has to be bliss. I agree with the doctors here in the UK not really knowing much about how to treat fissures, and their methods are antiquated to say the least. Am sorry you are suffering, the warm baths are working for me, and NO treatment at the mo as everything they have given me only made it worse. I have been booked in to see a specialist with regards to them performing the 'Stretch' but am going to see how I get on first, my body is telling me not to have this done as its not the right way to deal with it and i always listen to my body .
After 5 days of no treatment whatsover except the warm baths, i had a BM this morning and i actually felt the fissure tear again but only ever so slighty, the pain wasnt so bad, and I now know exactly where it is and to put it bluntly, what position to sit on the loo in so as it doesnt hurt quiet so much, whereas before, the medication i was given seemed to numb everything and I didnt know where it was, just felt extremely sore afterwards.
To be honest, I am better without all the steroid creams, and feel maybe now that inserting the suppositories only made the fissure worse. As they say, bottoms are meant to evacuate things downwards, shoving things upwards day after day when you are already sore, doesnt make sense to me.

hello stinger...i wouldnt use the suppositories either,i had NO success with them at all,and they were uncomfortable...messy too.the nitroglycerin cream worked really well for me,did the doc mention anything bout that?

Hi Stinger
What part of the UK are you from?I had a private specialist appointment at the Ipswich Nuffield Hospital, and although it cost Ј120 he couldn't examine me properly because I was squirming too much, and told me if I had the surgery I would be healed in 3 days, so I feel it was a waste of an appointment( and Ј120!!) I wouldn't be in any hurry for the doctors in our country to do any kind of procedure. I've had mine about 10 weeks now, and been through hell, but I'm having days now which aren't so bad so , fingers crossed, it's on it's way to healing!

I am on the south coast Val, Portsmouth way

Oh yes I know that. We went to Portsmouth Docks when we went to Warners at Hayling Island a few years back. At least you wont have to come in contact with my specialist then, unless he travels!! We live in Essex.