I'll give you some quick backstory.
Last Christmas I had some lower back pain and my doctor prescribed me a weeks worth of 1000mg Cipro. My digestive tract went nuts from it (huge stools + diarrhea) and my bowel movements felt like burning. Shortly after the rectal area felt sore/swollen, sitting down became extremely uncomfortable.
In April I got a colonoscopy done and the only thing the doctor found was a minor fissure. I thought for sure that's what was causing the rectal pain. Well last week I finally saw a surgeon and she used an anoscope to diagnose the area and to my surprise she said everything was fine. A minor hemmorhoid that she didn't seem worried about and NO fissure.
So now i'm left thinking, where is this soreness coming from? I haven't been able to sit down for the past 10 months! I start poking the surroundings of the anus in a circular motion and i come across a very small area right next to the anus which is very sore. If I even slightly poke/put pressure on it the pain is much worse.
What do I do about this? Should I pursue it further even though the doctor got an up close look from an anoscopy? I've even had a CT scan with nothing showing up. But this feels so much like an abscess I can't let it go.
(I should also mention I had a burst abscess about 7 years ago that I never saw a doctor for. The puss came flowing out of my anus for 24 hours and since the pain disappeared I was ecstatic and just left it at that. I'm wondering if leaving it untreated meant bad news for the future)
Last Christmas I had some lower back pain and my doctor prescribed me a weeks worth of 1000mg Cipro. My digestive tract went nuts from it (huge stools + diarrhea) and my bowel movements felt like burning. Shortly after the rectal area felt sore/swollen, sitting down became extremely uncomfortable.
In April I got a colonoscopy done and the only thing the doctor found was a minor fissure. I thought for sure that's what was causing the rectal pain. Well last week I finally saw a surgeon and she used an anoscope to diagnose the area and to my surprise she said everything was fine. A minor hemmorhoid that she didn't seem worried about and NO fissure.
So now i'm left thinking, where is this soreness coming from? I haven't been able to sit down for the past 10 months! I start poking the surroundings of the anus in a circular motion and i come across a very small area right next to the anus which is very sore. If I even slightly poke/put pressure on it the pain is much worse.
What do I do about this? Should I pursue it further even though the doctor got an up close look from an anoscopy? I've even had a CT scan with nothing showing up. But this feels so much like an abscess I can't let it go.
(I should also mention I had a burst abscess about 7 years ago that I never saw a doctor for. The puss came flowing out of my anus for 24 hours and since the pain disappeared I was ecstatic and just left it at that. I'm wondering if leaving it untreated meant bad news for the future)
