curious about whats going on down there!
hello,
appologese for this being my first post, i promise il get this one over and done with and introduce myslf a little elsewhere. Theres something pressing on my mind (hence joining the forum!) and i just want to discuss it with people who know where im coming from. Id like to clarify, that i do not have a diagnosis of crohns yet.
Iv had various symptoms for 7/8 years, mostly to do with D, but i wont detail them here. My biggest concern right now is my ongoing problems with an abcess.
or two as they case might be. im not sure!!
I was very ill indeed last summer, all of which was a haze due to sleeping and/or being in pain. I moved to live back with family (i live in the uk.) unfortunatly, within 2 weeks of moving, i developed a a perianal abcess. I did not have a clue for the first week or so why i was in so much pain, putting it down to hemmroids. As soon as the swelling started however i went to my gp who confirmed i had an abscess. I was hospital that night, for surgical drainage the next day.
i went for the usual daily packing etc, and was constantly told how tiny it was (1cm at the time.) One month after surgery, i was back in a&e because it had closed over, and burst again, this time with feocal involvment. I was refered on to my colo-rectal surgeon but told as it had burst, there was nothing more they could do.
One month on again..... same story, it had closed over, but required surgical drainage again. this time it was 2cm. There was no "obvious" sign of fistula during surgery.
Nearly 7 months on now in total, and the abcess itself healed up really well. However i do keep getting flair ups regularly, but never enough for an abscess to show under the skin. I have had a few instances where i have questioned fistulas, but my surgeon is adimant there there arnt any. the last time i saw her in january, she was very appologetic but said she would send me for an mri to be sure, and if was all clear, she would discharge me as from a surgeons point of view, theres nothing she could do.
i had the MRI, but unfortunatly the date i was ment to go and see her again i had to have an unrelated surgery. My appointment to see her was re-scheduled for mid april, but i was still desperate to know what was on the mri.
it was good of her to write to me. She said she had not had proper look at the results yet, but there does appear to be "a collection of fluid between the top of the vagina and the rectum." she says that the leakage of discharge iv been having on and of was p[robbaly due to this, though the exit tract was healed over at the time of mri. but does expect me to have further flair ups and it draining again in the future.
I have been to my gp a few times over the past few months, in agony, swearing blind that the abscess is returning. They were right not to give me anti biotics this time however because i had no temperature, and as much as it hurts, it does keep self draining.
but that still leaves me confused.
what the hell is this mysterious fluid if not infectious? if my abscess site is right down the bottom, is it too far beyond comprehention to think that maybe there was a fistula at some point? Why keep me waiting for so long to see her again if it is something? or if she insists that nothing can be done, why not write and discharge me?
:sign0085:
bb
hello,
appologese for this being my first post, i promise il get this one over and done with and introduce myslf a little elsewhere. Theres something pressing on my mind (hence joining the forum!) and i just want to discuss it with people who know where im coming from. Id like to clarify, that i do not have a diagnosis of crohns yet.
Iv had various symptoms for 7/8 years, mostly to do with D, but i wont detail them here. My biggest concern right now is my ongoing problems with an abcess.
or two as they case might be. im not sure!!
I was very ill indeed last summer, all of which was a haze due to sleeping and/or being in pain. I moved to live back with family (i live in the uk.) unfortunatly, within 2 weeks of moving, i developed a a perianal abcess. I did not have a clue for the first week or so why i was in so much pain, putting it down to hemmroids. As soon as the swelling started however i went to my gp who confirmed i had an abscess. I was hospital that night, for surgical drainage the next day.
i went for the usual daily packing etc, and was constantly told how tiny it was (1cm at the time.) One month after surgery, i was back in a&e because it had closed over, and burst again, this time with feocal involvment. I was refered on to my colo-rectal surgeon but told as it had burst, there was nothing more they could do.
One month on again..... same story, it had closed over, but required surgical drainage again. this time it was 2cm. There was no "obvious" sign of fistula during surgery.
Nearly 7 months on now in total, and the abcess itself healed up really well. However i do keep getting flair ups regularly, but never enough for an abscess to show under the skin. I have had a few instances where i have questioned fistulas, but my surgeon is adimant there there arnt any. the last time i saw her in january, she was very appologetic but said she would send me for an mri to be sure, and if was all clear, she would discharge me as from a surgeons point of view, theres nothing she could do.
i had the MRI, but unfortunatly the date i was ment to go and see her again i had to have an unrelated surgery. My appointment to see her was re-scheduled for mid april, but i was still desperate to know what was on the mri.
it was good of her to write to me. She said she had not had proper look at the results yet, but there does appear to be "a collection of fluid between the top of the vagina and the rectum." she says that the leakage of discharge iv been having on and of was p[robbaly due to this, though the exit tract was healed over at the time of mri. but does expect me to have further flair ups and it draining again in the future.
I have been to my gp a few times over the past few months, in agony, swearing blind that the abscess is returning. They were right not to give me anti biotics this time however because i had no temperature, and as much as it hurts, it does keep self draining.
but that still leaves me confused.
what the hell is this mysterious fluid if not infectious? if my abscess site is right down the bottom, is it too far beyond comprehention to think that maybe there was a fistula at some point? Why keep me waiting for so long to see her again if it is something? or if she insists that nothing can be done, why not write and discharge me?
:sign0085:
bb
