Hey! I know exactly what you're talking about...I've had it. I had NO idea what it was at the time, and that was at least 5 years ago...before I was diagnosed with CD. I went to the walk-in clinic for it, and the dr poked around at it, and didn’t know what it was…and when I got home it burst…it was SO gross.
I’ve had one other episode with it a few years ago, but after sitting in my kitchen sink with hot water and Epsom salts for an hour every day for a week, it went away, and never burst.
Ever since the first incident with it, when I pass gas, sometimes it comes out my va-jay-jay instead of my bum…or when I have really bad d, it will leak out as well (never A LOT…just a smidge).
I think the most important thing to note here is to keep that area as squeaky clean as you can…I have never had any pain from this, or any other complications other than those noted already. I recently told my GI about it…because I never thought there was a correlation until I came to this forum…my GI said that as long as it’s not bothering me, or causing me pain, to just leave it alone, that sometimes fixing the problem is only temporary, and the odds of it coming back are pretty high…so why go through all that trouble just to have to do it again in 6 months or a year?? Fair enough.
He wants to send me in for an MRI to see if they can see it, because he said they can be very hard to spot…sometimes as small as a pinhole. If it is a really big one, I imagine they would take steps to correct it.
If you want to chat more about it, you can either PM me, or reply…whichever you feel more comfortable with. One thing about this disease is it makes you lose your modesty pretty quickly.