i'm just curious...
1. when did your fissure develop?
2. why did it develop?
3. how big is/was your fissure?
4. how bad was your worst pain?
5. what was the best treatment for you?
for me:
1. about 13 years ago
2. the hardest and largest BM in my life
3. 2 cm X 1 cm
4. when i first got it it was excrutiating--10 on a scale of 1-10...worst pain ever--i swear i know what childbirth feels like!...then again this past fall and this spring it was up to between 6-10 depending, but it was constant and wouldn't go away...
5. pre-surgery was valium with any and all painkillers--some N-SAIDS as well as some narcotics, some extra fiber, stool softeners, a fissure-friendly diet, sitting & rocking...of these, for me, valium was the most beneficial...then i had LIS and it was the bee's knees (at least for me!)