I have started a stickied thread for all newcomers or lurkers who just want to read and get info on their anal fissure. Sticky means it will always be here at the top.

Hopefully this will help prevent the creation of threads that cover topics that are already scattered all over the board. Please, boardies, chime in and add info here, whatever you can think of that will help a newcomer tot he board. I'll start a sticky info post for the surgery board, also, so you LISer's and even Hemmorhid and Fistula folks can add info to that thread pertaining to surgery.

If you feel my advice is off, or incomplete or just want to add something, please speak up...the purpose here is just to provide as much information as possible in this one thread (plus the surgery sticky thread) and let AF sufferers sort through it for themselves!