Hi everyone,
This site has been a true savior for me recently and I'm grateful for all of the support and stories shared...
For those of you that don't know my story, the cliff notes version is: recurring abscess (6x) July through end of September. MRI showed transphicteric fistula, had seton placement 2 weeks ago. The amount of pain I endured post seton surgery was almost debilitating... I had about 3 "good days" or more hours during those days but mostly it was pretty intense, pain, and truthfully I can withstand a lot. I tried moving it a number of diff ways, nothing seemed to help. Yesterday I saw the surgeon and when he went to touch the area to view I screamed so loudly and emotionally he said this isn't normal, this should not be nearly this painful, most people do not even know it's in, and he took it out right then. He had me sit and asked how that felt without it and I said it felt so much better... He really had no idea as to why the pain was that severe and I must admit it leaves me wondering what the F happened??? Has anyone experienced this?
Secondly, he said we should schedule the Flap procedure next. He admitted his patients have told him it is pretty intense pain the first few days and that he worries that if the seton placement was so awful for me that he is concerned about the level of pain I could have with the FLAP.....
I have three kids under 4.... Which makes this so much harder. I have read many post about how important it is to rest after and how three laid in bed for weeks... No matter how much help I will be able to get, that will never be an option and this all worries me as well.
The surgeon left it up to me to decide when to schedule surgery as I had said the last few months and mainly the last 2 weeks have been hard on my girls, they're missing "me" and I said I don't want to ruin their holidays and can we push the date off? He said I can have it as early as I want or wait until January... We are due to travel with my whole family for thanksgiving for the week and the kids are pumped to see their cousins... Providing I start feeling better than I do currently we could still go and do that, but truthfully I'm in a huge funk, I don't feel like myself lately and don't know how much fun I would even be to be around everyone.
I have no idea what is best and I know the decision is in my hands but I am reaching out to you and asking for any guidance possible!!!!! Thank you so very much.
~ Kelly
This site has been a true savior for me recently and I'm grateful for all of the support and stories shared...
For those of you that don't know my story, the cliff notes version is: recurring abscess (6x) July through end of September. MRI showed transphicteric fistula, had seton placement 2 weeks ago. The amount of pain I endured post seton surgery was almost debilitating... I had about 3 "good days" or more hours during those days but mostly it was pretty intense, pain, and truthfully I can withstand a lot. I tried moving it a number of diff ways, nothing seemed to help. Yesterday I saw the surgeon and when he went to touch the area to view I screamed so loudly and emotionally he said this isn't normal, this should not be nearly this painful, most people do not even know it's in, and he took it out right then. He had me sit and asked how that felt without it and I said it felt so much better... He really had no idea as to why the pain was that severe and I must admit it leaves me wondering what the F happened??? Has anyone experienced this?
Secondly, he said we should schedule the Flap procedure next. He admitted his patients have told him it is pretty intense pain the first few days and that he worries that if the seton placement was so awful for me that he is concerned about the level of pain I could have with the FLAP.....
I have three kids under 4.... Which makes this so much harder. I have read many post about how important it is to rest after and how three laid in bed for weeks... No matter how much help I will be able to get, that will never be an option and this all worries me as well.
The surgeon left it up to me to decide when to schedule surgery as I had said the last few months and mainly the last 2 weeks have been hard on my girls, they're missing "me" and I said I don't want to ruin their holidays and can we push the date off? He said I can have it as early as I want or wait until January... We are due to travel with my whole family for thanksgiving for the week and the kids are pumped to see their cousins... Providing I start feeling better than I do currently we could still go and do that, but truthfully I'm in a huge funk, I don't feel like myself lately and don't know how much fun I would even be to be around everyone.
I have no idea what is best and I know the decision is in my hands but I am reaching out to you and asking for any guidance possible!!!!! Thank you so very much.
~ Kelly
