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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    Hi Dan. Mine is still leaking 9 months on. Small little hole on actual wound now . Another fistula apparently. Going to surgeon tomorrow for MRI and operation in a couple of months. Mine drains daily and I have to wear pad a gauze. I'm actually quite use to it now. It seems ridiculous. I change...
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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    Hi guys did you wear pads over wound all of the time or just sometimes
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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    I got the flu yesterday so surgeons visit has been postponed. The wound isn't really healing. So sick of this. Getting me and my wife mentally now.
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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    Thankyou. I'm back to pads but it still leaks. Surgeon looking at it again in about 10 days.
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    Perianal Abcess and Anal Fistula journey to date. (New to forum)

    My problem is the bloody abcess wound heals well and then re opens after a sudden movement. Startts draining again and takes months to heal again.
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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    Thanks bac715. That's my issue...it starts to heal well, then weeks later is tender and tears. Then drains for weeks on end again. When yours teats occasionally, does it start leaking again?
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    Perianal Abcess and Anal Fistula journey to date. (New to forum)

    Doc put me on Augmentin/Omexcllion for a 5 day course. Says if fever etc...go to hospital. I don't feel to bad. It's just leaking a he'll of a slot and tender.
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    Perianal Abcess and Anal Fistula journey to date. (New to forum)

    Yes. Getting tested in 2weeks. I have had sore hips for 6 months. Came out of nowhere. Some days good, some bad. I feel so much older than I am. Today's issue is the draining of wound...feels infected (pussier than usual) I feel for my wife, she great support after 2 x ops with dressings etc...
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    Fistulotomy Won’t Heal - Advice?

    I hope your wound has healed. I also still have an open wound after three or four months. It leaks most days. Very frustrating. Tried honey and coconut oil so far without luck. Thinking of aloe vera. It 90 per cent closes up and then opens again after a random or sudden movement mostly at work.
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    Perianal Abcess and Anal Fistula journey to date. (New to forum)

    Hi all you brave people. My ordeal and learnings of perinal abcess started in Jan 2021 and hasn't really stopped (18 months later). Mine came (well I think) from a carnival ride where my whole body left the roller-coaster seat and crashed back down on my bum. I remember getting off with a sore...
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    Male new to Possible Crohns (anal fistula advice)

    As title says, I may be new to Crohns and am getting tested in 2 weeks. -Have been having crook gut for 12 months, on and off. -Feeling weak (I'm 38, feel like 78) (I used to be fit) - 3 perianal abcess, with one into a fistula. My last fistula was in February. The surgeon left Seton in for one...
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