New Doctors and Anal Skin Tag removal

Finally in remission from Crohns, its been a long 2 and a half years. It all started in my fifth month of pregnancy with my daughter. One morning I woke up and there was so much blood when I had a BM I thought I had miscarried. My doctors reassured me it was probably just due to internal hemmrds. I went into labor at 30 wks, baby girl born at 32 wks, 5 wks in NICU. Currently happy and healthy, missed first 2 yrs of her life due to being in the hospital or drugged out of my mind for pain. The entire process of being diagnosed was incredibly frustrating and distressing. Initially diagnosed with UC, symptoms continued to worsen while on mesalamines, finally ended up in the hospital 6 months later with over 80% of my GI tract inflammed and a near rupture. Been a real struggle to get back to health since then emotionally (depression/anxiety) and physically (I'm exhausted). Recently found out I have IBS as well and Remicade is not working to resolve perianal Crohns. My colorectal surgeon removed several skin tags (without explaining anything) just snipped them off. Wondering if that was the best idea, in a horrible amount of pain and have been reading that there is a high prevalence of them not healing well? Can anyone provide more info on this if you have had them removed?

I have a anal skin tags and internal and external hemoffhoids. My skin tag does not cause me any problems but my one hemorrhoid is a frequent big bleeder. I asked my GI about removing the one bad hemorrhoid and he said NO WAY in a patient with Crohn's. He said the fear is that it will cause the Crohn's to "activate" at the removal site causing healing problems and pain.

Sorry that your are suffering now with this. I hope that it does heal without problems. In the mean time has either your GI or colorectal surgeon offered medications to reduce the pain and possible inflammation. Topical lidocaine might be something they could use to reduce the pain temporarily. I would certain ask the gI to look at the area and give you something to deal with the problem the tag removal caused.

Bumping for PB4 to see!