Gosh, this is the post I dreamed about for months - actually, during the worst of my pain, I would think about the "Healed" post multiple times a day, and for long it looked like I'd never get to write it.
But here it is, I'm H-E-A-L-E-D.
I know it might come back and it's common to carry fissures for life. Actually, this was my second time with a fissure, although the first one, 10 years ago, healed in a few days without any medicine.
I won't tell my whole story again, you can see a good amount of detail on my last post:
http://anal-fissure.org/t5304-pain-and-blood-free-for-2-weeks#77314
HOWEVER, I must highlight one thing: I had tried everything and nothing was really working on my fissure. Two things did the trick, and I really hope these can help some people in this forum:
1) I was eating too much fiber. My stools were bulky and I was going to the bathroon 3-5 times a day. This was really making it worse, even with Miralax. The doctor who delivered my cure told me to eat MORE and eat LESS FIBER as a percentage of what I eat. This reduced my bowel movements and might have helped because I was simply not eating enough nutrients for my healing to take place.
2) ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE 2% on a lanette cream base (looks like white toothpaste): my doctor knows diltiazem, nifedipine etc and I used all of these. However, he said that since he started using Isosorbide, he hadn't performed a single LIS. Not that LIS is bad, he said, actually he said it's "great" because "it's the only surgery where the patient gets in with pain and leaves without!". His botton line was: Isosorbide had been 100% effective with him and I wasn't exception to the rule.
Let me stress how effective the treatment was: in my previous 3 months, I had never spent 3 days in a row without blood and pain. Nifedipine and Diltiazem helped, but didn't really heal me. In less than a week with the treatment above, I was HEALED.
I still have a bit of a hemorrhoid problem - in the past 5 weeks, I had 1 instance of minor bleeding from constipation, but with no pain. I've been more than a month without any pain. My fissure is gone!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Last, but not least, I'd like to thank EVERYBODY in this forum who helped me. I know how difficult this condition is, and I know that I might not even be cured "for good". We take life as it comes. However, it became more clear than ever that we need each other to navigate through the many challenges that are presented to us throughout our time on this earth.
I really appreciate everything you did to me, it was immensely helpful and I don't know if I could do it without your help and the help of my family. I was still come to the forum and try to help others, but possibly I'll be here a bit less often (unless it comes again I guess :( )
THANK YOU! :)