Hi everyone. 29 year old female. New to the forum, and 6 weeks deep in the abscess/fistula game. It's been a week since the fistulotomy, and I'm still in considerable pain. I was even afraid that the abscess was returning. Pain and a little swelling this morning. I'm still on the antibiotics and the antiinflammatories, so I'm assuming they're keeping it at bay. I have a day left on both tho, and I'm afraid to NOT be on antibiotics. I've been on 3 different antibiotics over the course of 6 weeks. And I still haven't had a solid bowel movement. I shower 4-6 times a day, and I'm really just miserable.
But I have a few personal experience questions:
When does the drainage stop? It's irritating.
How long until I'll be able to have intercourse? We're dying over here.
Why the hell is the side of my butt button puckered in? Super weird and makes me feel like I can't get clean. Hence the excessive showering.
PS. For you people that have been dealing with this for extended periods of time with recurrences, you're ROCKSTARS. This has been a painful and scary nightmare. Glad I found the page!