Hi all,
Hope someone can give me some info here, my GP can't. For months now I've had a "swelling" just inside... well, you know.
It started out painless and reasonably small and wasn't bothering me in the slightest, but for the last 6 weeks or so it has been painful, sometimes bleeds and sometimes interferes with bowel movements.
My GP said it isn't likely to be an abscess because I would have a fever and my white cells would be up. He said it may be a thickening of the bowel, but I know it isn't. It's not thickened, it's filled with something hard because I think it burst once during a bowel movement. A white, waxy, fibrous looking thing came out, the pain was less than half what it was before and it was bleeding. It felt good.
Anyway, it obviously is not going to go on its own and being in the position that it is, everytime I sit down I'm making it worse. Sometimes I'll roll over and it'll be hugely painful. One time I squashed it so hard it woke me up from my sleep in the morning and I literally couldn't move for hours because it was so painful. That's the day it burst.
It's hard, swollen and painful and it will change shape depending on my position. If I sit upright, it'll go flat on the bottom, or if I lie back it'll mould itself in to a new shape. It's pretty big now, probably over 3 inches long and over an inch and a half wide.
I'm going to have to get an appointment with my gastro because my GP said he's not touching it. He said "it's probably something to do with your Crohn's". I was a little surprised actually because I thought that was fairly obvious.
I had a similar problem about 8 months ago where I had two small "lumps" filled with a clear fluid around the... the thing. I managed to get rid of them by squeezing them open, they eventually went. But those were on the outside, and this is WAY more painful, it's HUGE and I don't want to go making it worse.
I sometimes think I'm going to to go A&E and fake it a little, because it's so bloody painful. I mean it's not like it's an actual emergency, but if I have to see my gastro it's gonna take more than a month before I can see him, GP won't do it, A&E is the only option.
*sigh* :depressed:
lol, not really but my Crohn's would be so much better if I could just be free of this painful THING.
So, what do you think it actually is? Could it be infected? How do I tell if it is infected? Any home remedies to reduce its size?
Thanks everyone.
Hope someone can give me some info here, my GP can't. For months now I've had a "swelling" just inside... well, you know.
It started out painless and reasonably small and wasn't bothering me in the slightest, but for the last 6 weeks or so it has been painful, sometimes bleeds and sometimes interferes with bowel movements.
My GP said it isn't likely to be an abscess because I would have a fever and my white cells would be up. He said it may be a thickening of the bowel, but I know it isn't. It's not thickened, it's filled with something hard because I think it burst once during a bowel movement. A white, waxy, fibrous looking thing came out, the pain was less than half what it was before and it was bleeding. It felt good.
Anyway, it obviously is not going to go on its own and being in the position that it is, everytime I sit down I'm making it worse. Sometimes I'll roll over and it'll be hugely painful. One time I squashed it so hard it woke me up from my sleep in the morning and I literally couldn't move for hours because it was so painful. That's the day it burst.
It's hard, swollen and painful and it will change shape depending on my position. If I sit upright, it'll go flat on the bottom, or if I lie back it'll mould itself in to a new shape. It's pretty big now, probably over 3 inches long and over an inch and a half wide.
I'm going to have to get an appointment with my gastro because my GP said he's not touching it. He said "it's probably something to do with your Crohn's". I was a little surprised actually because I thought that was fairly obvious.
I had a similar problem about 8 months ago where I had two small "lumps" filled with a clear fluid around the... the thing. I managed to get rid of them by squeezing them open, they eventually went. But those were on the outside, and this is WAY more painful, it's HUGE and I don't want to go making it worse.
I sometimes think I'm going to to go A&E and fake it a little, because it's so bloody painful. I mean it's not like it's an actual emergency, but if I have to see my gastro it's gonna take more than a month before I can see him, GP won't do it, A&E is the only option.
*sigh* :depressed:
lol, not really but my Crohn's would be so much better if I could just be free of this painful THING.
So, what do you think it actually is? Could it be infected? How do I tell if it is infected? Any home remedies to reduce its size?
Thanks everyone.
