Posted 2/6/2012 10:57 AM (GMT 0)
first off, i cant say how unbelivable comforting to see how many people are going through simular problems, its easy to feel so so alone, and like was said in another post i read here, its not a dinner table topic, ive felt so for many years that i was so broken and different.
I have had a reacuring peri fistula from a folicular cyst sincei was 14, i am now 29. In the past, 7 surguries over the last 16 years, th ey have allways just removed the folical cyst, leaving the fistula as a fail safe for drainage. It allways comes back, fills and drain, fills and drain, and the pain is unbarable. I just had my latest surgery last friday, and this time, in lamens term, for they are what i know best lol, the vut me open from one fistula opening to the other, (
n i had oen on top and one below, and removed Eveything around there, in all directions, including the fistula tracks themselves, i have about 14 disolvables stitches and am pretty uncomfortable, but more so, so scared that this too wikk be an unsiccesful surgery, but now i have no fail safe drain track. my concern is that itis still draining so much, and i dont know if its, " regular surgery drainage from healing, or the abssess draining still, just doijg so easily since there is the long insision give such a path of least resistance, my 2nd surgery, they left it open and i had to pack it daily, untilll it closed from inside out, but that didnt work, this time they chose no drainage tube, just a stitch up and my surgen said he is confident that the chances are good that theu " got it all" and that all the cells shoudl be gone, but after so many many yearas of painfull hell im skeptical, my question, is if anyone has expirience with anything lke this, is this much drainage 9 days post op sound normal? part of healing? im so terrified that i will heal up and abbsess but now with no path to drain, my body having to start over macking an exit.
Any advice would be so very greatly appriciated, and also just knowing you are are out there, is so much help on its own. oh, also, im so very sorry for my horrid spelling, and typos, its the middle of the night, can't sleep pain/worry. Plus im a hprrid typest and speller lol