by enough is enough » 01 Mar 2013, 14:01
The CRS who performed my LIS 2 weeks ago couldn't see my fissure until I was knocked out in the OR. She could get a much better look there than in her office, where it simply would have been too uncomfortable for me to undergo that much dilation and probing. (Several years prior, I had been diagnosed with visible fissures by two other CRSs, but they come and go - that's the nature of "chronic.") She told me this is a fairly common occurrence with chronic AF sufferers, who come in reporting textbook pain and other fissure symptoms, but the fissure itself can't always be spotted. Our deal was that she would perform the LIS if she found a fissure, and/or a too-tight internal sphincter muscle in the OR. I won on both counts! :D