Hello all! I basically self-diagnosed my fissure after suffering with pain and going from one doctor to the other and being told it was hemmorhoids. Yesterday I went to a general surgeon (second visit) who had previously given me Analpram for the hem's. I specifically asked him to look to see if I had a fissure, and yes, he said, I had a fissure on "the left".
He wanted to give me a lidocaine prescription, but said that I had had a bad reaction to this, to which he told me that he couldn't help me then, and did not seem to think anything else worked... This might have been
his lack of knowledge of the other choices. I don't know!
I am worrying a little about the left side fissure, as having an autoimmune disease, whether this is different than having the fissure at the bottom position in the anus. Just another worry.
Anyway, this is where I am now.