Marg,
Is it possible that the blood came from any other source than the fissure?
Do you or have you ever had issues with hems???
Just the fact that you are not having major pain and nothing is ever as bad as it was indicates to me that you are doing so well in your healing. I have a CRS appointment next Friday and I have a lot more questions now I am "wiser" to this all - my main one being "Do anal fissures ever fully heal?" If the response is yes and I get a proper explanation as to how, it will be enough to reinforce my belief that I will continue as I am (unless I get an extremely major setback)
Like any injury, a certain amount of care is always needed to heal - unfortunately, this is just a particularly delicate and fragile area to heal and takes an awful long time, but I do believe it is possible. This is why LIS to me is my final option. I'm not scared in any way of making that choice, hell, I've been through enough in the last year to just get it done but if I can heal conservatively, I will continue with that route. I don't see that LIS will make anything necessarily worse, to be honest, it's a simple procedure with a lot of success stories. It has helped an awful lot of sufferers and would probably promote full healing more quickly but I am not in extreme pain, happy to manage and live with things as they are right now & I'm just not considering it as an option at this stage.
If you did opt for the surgery, I completely understand your fear (I had fistula surgery last year which turned out to be a breeze) I'd suggest doing lots of research to find out more about LIS, the procedure, the recovery and some of the very successful experiences people have had with it first.
Maybe yesterday was a bad day generally for you??? You sounded so fed up and maybe today you are feeling better and a lot more positive again?? I do hope so
Ravians, I think this might answer your question too about my feelings on LIS. Thanks so much for your kind words and support but I can honestly say, things have suddenly got so much better again - I just can't figure it out!!! You may well be completely right about the alcohol but there's been times when I've had a glass of wine and it's had no effect at all - I don't drink a bottle a night or anything just very very ocassionally a glass, two max. I guess it's also part of my nature in that I don't want this to taking over my whole life and if I want a very ocassional glass, I will have one!!!....I do maintain a very careful diet, I've cut out an awful lot of rubbish and even if I drink wine, I ensure I have a very large glass of water to go with it!! I hope you are feeling better at the moment - you were in so much pain a week or so ago?