What is this?

[kronic]

I was diagnosed with crohns around Christmas, and since the problems started I've had a bad burning and heavy feeling on my anus and entire lower region ONLY after going to the bathroom.

Thankfully I only use the bathroom once right now, so that is under control, but what's keeping me from being 100% well is this damn pain in the ass.

I saw my GI a couple months ago they did a cat scan and it wasn't a fistula or deep abscess, she called it a skin abscess.

Now it's starting to smell terrible all day, but I only know it's there after a bowel movement. It is very frustrating that it won't go away, and is only there after a bowel movement, other than that I am fine other times

 

[Grumbletum]

Hi kronic and welcome. Sounds very annoying. Can you see any sort of lump or hole in the area and does it look inflamed? When they said it was a skin abscess, did they prescribe any treatment for it?

 

[kronic]

Hi kronic and welcome. Sounds very annoying. Can you see any sort of lump or hole in the area and does it look inflamed? When they said it was a skin abscess, did they prescribe any treatment for it?

Thanks for the welcome.

I see something like a bump a couple inches from my anus, but it's my anus that hurts after a bowel movement for what seems like 4-5 hours.

I am guessing it could be a fissure AND an abscess

What sucks is that I am relatively fine the entire day, and then when I use the bathroom I turn in to a different person for the entire 5 hours from all the pain.

They didn't prescribe anything and told me to see a rectal surgeon, which i have not done.

 

[shamrock15]

I have had the same experience - mine was due to a combination of fissures and a stricture. Likewise, it would take a period of several hours to dissipate. Problem was 8-10 bowel movements a day, meaning I was always in pain. One product that helped for me was proctofoam, and I am taking remicade as well. Nothing else worked.

 

[kronic]

I have had the same experience - mine was due to a combination of fissures and a stricture. Likewise, it would take a period of several hours to dissipate. Problem was 8-10 bowel movements a day, meaning I was always in pain. One product that helped for me was proctofoam, and I am taking remicade as well. Nothing else worked.

I will try proctofoam. I used to go upwards of 10 times a day as well, and that's when this problem started. With steroids it was lowered to once a day and with asacol 3 times a day with 2 pills it has been stabilized at 1 time a day most of the time.

 

[Sailorluna]

I am sorry that you are going through this. Hope it gets better soon. Are you going to see a colo-rectal surgeon? I find that my cr surgeon is more knowledgeable than my GI. My GI wont see me at all for abscess /fistula stuff they send me to him.

 

[kronic]

The only medicine I am on atm is asacol, and I am thinking it's the asacol causing this as I've heard stories of anal pain and prolapse from asacol. It seems like EVERY time I miss a dose and I don't even remember that I did is that my anus doesn't really hurt anymore.