When I had my abscess I remember in the beginning the pain and pressure for a month and then the discharge started along with fatigue and low grade fever. I'm having all of those symptoms but I'm not...
So I went into work on Saturday and it proved to be not a good idea, as I should have remained in bed and resting, especially with the sutures now outside of my body. I called the Triage number I had...
So today when I was in a hot bath I realized that I have stitching coming out of either my anus or my fistula track. This is concerning to me because the surgeon only put sutures on the inside for...
Thanks for the response scifigal2k. It has been one long week since my surgery. My pain was horrible through Tuesday and still pretty bad on Wednesday. I wasn't really able to go to the bathroom...
Hello everyone. I posted about a week ago about having the advanced flap surgery for my fistula and didn't get much feed back. I'm hoping I get some this time because I could really use some feedback...
Hi all! It has been a while since I've posted in here. A refresher is I developed an internal anal abscess (between the two sphincter muscles) last April. I've had 6 surgeries, now 7 after today and...
I was aware that they probably wouldn't do any biopsies unless they saw something of concern going into the scope. I guess I was just just assuming that something would be found to indicate Crohn's...
They didn't do any biopsies bc they didn't find anything. And don't fret no one on here referenced the "bad luck". That was from the Drs. And I didn't "want" a Crohns diagnosis, I just wanted an...
I had my first emergency surgery for a peri-rectal abscess back in April of this year. It was a deep one, golf ball size and I was septic. After that first surgery I was referred to one of the...
I'm not sure I can offer any advice but I can sympathize with you. I found out I had an abscess in April of this year because I had a terrible pain in my left butt cheek area (I thought I had pulled...
Thank you for the reply NiceCupOfTea. Be critical, I asked for it so that I could get some responses. I know what you mean about fatigue. I have a 40 hour a week job, plus a full time graduate...
Thank you minnietoty for your reply. I'm also not sure why I haven't been diagnosed before now. I was diagnosed celiac intolerant or something similar back in 2001, along with IBS. But no one took it...
Thanks for all the responses. I'm mostly off the pain meds. One or two a day, usually one in the morning before work/school and one at night before bed bc I find that the tossing and turning I do at...
So I seem to be healing nicely now. Most of the pain is completely gone bc they finally found the head of my abscess/complex fistula after the 6th surgery. I had at least a golf ball size mass that...
So after my 6th surgery for what started as an abscess and ended up as a fustula that ended up a branch in all sorts of ways I had a fistulotomy on 9/16. I took two weeks off of work because it was...
So my 6th surgery ended up being a little bit more involved than the Drs had anticipated. My simple fistula ended up being a complex one because it had quite a few branches. So now the Drs are...
My follow up after receiving this new seton in the new fistula is next Friday. My surgeon will then decidewhen my colonoscopy, biopsy and blood work will be in order to diagnose me with Crohns or...
Had my 6th surgery yesterday. After my MRI last week my surgeon found what appeared to be another fistula branching off of the original fistula. So my fistulotomy turned into a half one on the...
As far as I know they haven't run any labs. No pill capsule or colonoscopy. Just surgeries. My 6th is today at 3 pm. A fistulaotomy. My grandmother and dad both had diverticulitis and I've had...
Rose*flo-thank you for your reply. I have constipation and in the last year or so diarrhea, intermittently. Nothing to write home about, with the diarrhea. This last week it's been bad but only 7...
Mouse-thank you for your response. I've posted a few times on here and haven't yet received any real feed back as it pertains to similar issues as mine until now, with your reply. I just hate being...
My problems started back in February of this year. I thought I had pulled a muscle in my bum, until my bum hole started to discharge a pus like substance. Found out it was a rather deep internal...
My story started April 7th. Severe pain for a month, thought I had pulled a butt muscle. Then a discharge from my anus started. Went to ER and they found I had an abscess. About 2 cm. sent me home...
so I've had 4 perirectal surgeries to drain an internal abscess that started April 9th. The first 3 surgeries were done internally bc it was an internal absces (inter sphincter). The 4th was both...
He's the head of the colon/rectal Surgery department. He's a wonderful surgeon but I think you're right and it's just not his specialty. Surgery is....
I will keep pushing for a more definitive answer than "bad luck" as to why I developed a recurring abscess, that isn't going away even after 4 surgeries and three weeks of antibiotics. As for my...
So I had my MRI yesterday and my follow up with the surgeon after my external/internal surgery for my recurring abscess that started between the two sphincter muscles and then moved outwards (this is...
I have my first MRI tomorrow morning then straight to my surgeon to see how I'm healing from last Fridays external surgery on my abscess. The area where they cut and where my bf now packs me is very...
I have had digestive issues since I was a baby (of the constipation kind). When I was older and in my first year of college they decided I was gluten intolerant and had me try and alter my diet to...
Thank you for the response. I realize it was a behemoth of a post. It just has me worried. I'm a fairly healthy person, besides the constipation/diarrhea problems and had only ever had one surgery, a...
This is my very first post. I have been reading these forums for two months now. I'll start from the beginning. Three months ago I felt like I had a pulled muscle due to moving from a house and...