CHEWING ! I'm sure you all know this already... But in the first few months of my fissure experience (actually for most of the entire year), I had a huge problem with making my BMs soft. Anytime I had soft BMs they would be painless, but it was nearly impossible for me to get them. I couldn't understand what I was doing wrong - I had a healthy diet, tried cutting out dairy, had fibre and fruit. Then I realized, I was eating nuts and maybe other hard things. So I stopped eating hard things and that did help a lot...
But I noticed in the past maybe 2 months or so, I've finally mastered the art of having soft poo WITHOUT a stool softener. This has been a huge hurdle for me to jump over, I'm just so overjoyed. I'm finally getting to know my body

and my pooping system, it feels soo great. I've realized that you can still eat all the nuts you want, infact, you can even eat chips and salsa once in a while - but the most important thing to remember is to chew chew chew , chew 30 times, chew 40 times, just chew until it's a soft mush and nothing more!
Don't put 10 nuts into your mouth at a time, of course... Eat slowly and chew chew chew! This has really helped me have soft poo and I'm still able to eat things that I need to or want to eat. I've also been confused lately because pizza doesn't constipate me anymore. I have no idea why? Milk still does so I neve rdrink it (unless I'm having loose BMs on my period!) - but in the past few months, I actually am able to go to the bathroom more instantly when I have pizza! It's interesting..
But I am happy because I have been able to eat granola and pecans again, I've just realized that I need to do it slowly, one at a time, and chew several times. Has anyone else found this? I'm completely shocked that I barely need to take Miralax anymore... I used to be so dependent on it! So so relieved and happy

.. I still do have a fissure or two and am working on that (need to try harder to keep up with the aloe vera and soaking schedule). But I'm happy about the soft BMs !!

Hope everyone else is doing great. Take care