HIFU COMPLICATIONS

A fistula does not indicate crohns 90% of the time.  

You may want to have a colonscopy, just because it is a good idea after 50, but that is your GI doc's call.

I think it is a far stretch and possibly damaging to automatically assume a person has crohns just because they describe a fistula.  There's lots of other causes, and there's lots of other descriptives that can be used, especially in a patient who has had HIFU.  chas036, I realize that you are a kinda crusader for dietary cures through other disease areas of Healing Well and that your wife had experienced  fistulas that were supposedly cured by diet alone, but to say that this guy has a 90% chance of crohns just from a few descriptive words is wrong, in my opinion. It would have been better to say to the poster that he needs to see his doctor, be examined and go from there, rather than throw possible fear of a really bad disease in him and offer a saves-all diet.    I would caution the original poster and others to not automatically assume fistulas are precursurs to crohns. 

Women get fistulas all the time from being pregant and giving birth, it is definately not only with crohns. 

So possible 90% of crohns patients get fistulas, but there is no way that 90 % of fistulas are from crohns.

They are very common and there is a mulitude of reasons for fistulas.

Guy66 is right on with this treatment can cause alot of trama for that delicate skin to handle, so that is why I said go see a doc.
They can determind what the best course of treatment. Minor surgery to antibodics are used to treat it. Some just do heal up on their own. But cancer and it's treatments are hard on the GI tract in general, so it is a good idea to check with a GI doc.
I am not a patient person, and so I used antibodics because I did not want to run the risk of infection. Plus running the risk of infection when you have cancer is a bad idea.