Hello,
I've been reading this forum for a few weeks now, since scheduling a fistulotomy. I still have not found much information similar to my situation so I'm hoping someone can in the future. To keep the intro short, I am a 28-year old woman who during college had a pilonidal cyst, which healed with I&D and daily packing. 6 years later I started noticing a cyst closer to my rectum. I went to my general doctor and she thought it was a bartholin cyst, lanced it and sent me on my way to follow up with OBGYN. My OBGYN said it was not a bartholin that it was actually a perianal abcess with some granulation tissue. He scheduled me for a one day outpatient to incise and drain the abcess. Almost immediately I knew that things were not healing properly, but my doctor insisted that it would take time. After a couple months, I decided to go and see a CRS. He diagnosed me with a fistula and we scheduled fistulotomy. My surgery took place 3 days ago.