Antibiotics and colitis?

Hey I have a pilonidal cyst/sinus and going to have surgery.

I see antibiotics can be used to help treat the sinus. If the doctor gives me antibiotics will it effect my pancolits?

I was given antiobiotics for an infection after an operation, specifically metronidazole and amoxycillin, and it induced a flare after my UC had been kept in check for 8 months. I think (hope!) I'm getting it back under control now, but when I asked around I was given several other tales of woe, so it is a risk taking antibiotics with UC. However, in my case, I had little choice.

i think it really depends on the antibiotic. a couple of months ago i had to take antibiotics for pneumonia and it didnt even affect my colitis.

There is a very high probablility that the antibiotics will effect your colitis. Very high dose probiotics can help mitigate the problem but most of the time even that can't eliminate the problem.

Yeah, like soystud says, there are other ways to help a sinus infection. I was hocking (sp?) up nasty brownish green mess for three months during the winter and still wouldn't touch them. Everybody around me was too, they got antibiotics and got better a little more quickly than me, but I'm still glad I didn't go to the doctor. It sunny and 85 now and I feel great.

Yea just to the side of my tail bone. Not the head sinus lol.

Well the doctor said he is gonna leave the wound open i think and not close it up, and i'm going to have dressing changes every day for awhile. Maybe that is to avoid using antibiotics, i dunno.

I guess I can just refuse to take them. Cant the body get rid of infections by its self?

i had a cyst there, too, but luckily it went away on its own after i stopped squatting on the toilet. that put so much pressure there. my dad also had one that he needed surgically removed. he didn't get antibiotics for it though and he has UC. he wasn't flaring at the time.