This will be crs #3.
So, the first crs didn't see a fissure (even though he saw my first one 3 1/2 yrs. ago), but he sent me home with nitro/lido ointment, after saying he didn't know why I was in pain.
Crs #2 saw the fissures, gave me a prescription for a hydrocortisone pramoxine (?) cream, and said to take Konsyl and come back, if the discomfort didn't go away. That cream didn't seem to help, so I went back to the nitro/lido and used it - not always convinced it was helping. Pain and discomfort continued. --- I went back to this crs last week, and thought we did discuss surgery (and A.D., which he completely dismissed), he said my fissures are small (1mm), and the best long-term fix was fiber and time - and to come back in two months. TWO MONTHS! BTW, this crs is a very respected doc here in town, and he's also a military doc/surgeon. I got the feeling that, though he's nice enough, he's the "suck it up and take it" type of guy - and I also felt like he talked more than he listened. (FTR, my hubs went with me to that appt. and thinks that the visit went well, and that I should probably just follows this guy's instructions, since my AFs are so small - but my hubs is also very supportive and just wants me to feel better, so he's going with me tomorrow, too.)
Thus . . . I've decided to get yet another opinion. It's not that I'm trying to "doctor hop," as my internist put it, but since the first crs saw nothing, that visit doesn't count. I'd like this 3rd crs's opinion, to see if it varies from the 2nd crs's opinion. I'm not trying to rush anything, but after 3 months of this problem, I need to keep at this.
I just had to vent. I'm sick of going to doctors, and I'm sick of having any kind of fanny discomfort. I just want to be out there and living.
Thanks for reading through my vent.